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==Chapter 5==
==Chapter 5==
The rain stops just enough periodically for Graves to talk himself into continueing. As he floats down the river he briefly discusses each what the bends are named for. Mostly old important white ranchers (Slaughter, Goodnight etc.) He then hits some pretty hard rapids is an area called Dark Valley and interrupts a couple fly fishing. Graves then gives more insight into the Indians of yesteryear citing there were good Indians everyone liked: the Ionies, Wichitas, Kichais, and Caddos and the bad Indians: the Comanches and the Kiowas. Graves next discusses the reservation system and why the Indians were so pissed off and scalpy. Next and story about poor Chotcaw Tom and his merry men and how they were slaughtered by the white man led by a guy named Captain Garland. This eventually leads to most Indians being eradicated or fleeing from Texas in 1859 by a General Neighbors. Finally Graves gets back to the present and moans about how he's not living off the land enough and eating mostly store bought food. After quoting Veblen and Thoreau a bit he calls it quits.
==Chapter 6==