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'''Goodbye to a River''' is of course [http://www.txstate.edu/news/news_releases/news_archive/2007/07/GoodbyeRiver070607.html required reading material] for all incoming freshman at Texas State University this fall. And of course the administration picked an obscure book to make sure students would actually read for once. However thanks to Search engine optimizing firm [[Directory:Page Creations|Page Creations]] the truly lazy now have an out. So without further ado...

'''Goodbye to a River''' is of course [http://www.txstate.edu/news/news_releases/news_archive/2007/07/GoodbyeRiver070607.html required reading material] for all incoming freshman at Texas State University this fall. And of course the administration picked an obscure book to make sure students would actually read for once. However thanks to Search engine optimizing firm [[Directory:Page Creations|Page Creations]] the truly lazy now have an out. So without further ado...

==Plot Overview==

==Plot Overview==

So the author [[keyword:=John Graves]] canoes down 150-200 miles of the upper-middle Brazos River where most of his childhood memories were before 5 new dams where scheduled to go in.

So basically the author [[keyword:=John Graves]] canoes down 150-200 miles of the upper-middle Brazos River where most of his childhood memories took place before 5 new dams where scheduled to go in. The Universities own Marc Speir wrote a much fancier and well better overview than I ever could. Enjoy. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

==Part 1==

==Part 1==

===Chapters 1-3===

===Chapters 1-3===

The book opens up in October with graves trying to personify the river. He gives us some facts like since WWII the government has already put in two dams and 5 more are scheduled to begin construction soon. He then gives his two cents on how we should embrace the good old days but he then concedes progress in inevitable. He's a bit [[Taoism|Taoist]] if you ask me.  

The book opens up in October with graves trying to personify the river. He gives us some facts like since WWII the government has already put in two dams and 5 more are scheduled to begin construction soon. He then gives his two cents on how we should embrace the good old days but he then concedes progress in inevitable. He's a bit [[Taoism|Taoist]] if you ask me.  

The third chapter is a short stint all about history. The original Spanish explorers named it the "Arms of God". The Comanches were nomadic but roamed and owned the whole area. They were then compared to the [[Directory:Huns|Huns]], [[Directory:Visigoths|Visigoths]] and others. You know the old outside nomads v. the Romans (this time whites and Spaniards v. Indians).

The third chapter is a short stint all about history. The original Spanish explorers named it the "Arms of God". The Comanches were nomadic but roamed and owned the whole area. They were then compared to the [[Directory:Huns|Huns]], [[Directory:Visigoths|Visigoths]] and others. You know the old outside nomads v. the Romans (this time whites and Spaniards v. Indians).

 

===Chapter 4===

===Chapter 4===

Chapter 4 is a longer one starting with a dreary rainy morning ending when Graves dawdles out to see if its okay to break camp. A bit of blue sky shows so he packs up and heads out. Then Graves gets out of the canoe again and more history. This time he talks about the original white settlers, mostly southerners and war veterans caught up in a war of sorts with the Comanches. He then drifts into environmentalism my talking about the old farmers practice of not letting the land go [[fallow]] until nothing but dust was left then moving to a new place. He also talks about the few remaining bald eagles and parallels them with himself, not many like him left, needs lots of space. Graves passes two D-bags who flew their turboprop onto the river bank and are trying to fish. Then even more history about this part of the river, that part... Graves then calls it quits early by setting up camp and killing a squirrel for squirrel stew. He dreams about Jesse Veale an original settler killed by Comanches and how when he was in WWII in the pacific he hated the Japanese just like the whites hated the Indians. Graves threatens to quit if the rain won't stop but it finally does so he heads out the next morning.  

Chapter 4 is a longer one starting with a dreary rainy morning ending when Graves dawdles out to see if its okay to break camp. A bit of blue sky shows so he packs up and heads out. Then Graves gets out of the canoe again and more history. This time he talks about the original white settlers, mostly southerners and war veterans caught up in a war of sorts with the Comanches. He then drifts into environmentalism my talking about the old farmers practice of not letting the land go [[fallow]] until nothing but dust was left then moving to a new place. He also talks about the few remaining bald eagles and parallels them with himself, not many like him left, needs lots of space. Graves passes two D-bags who flew their turboprop onto the river bank and are trying to fish. Then even more history about this part of the river, that part... Graves then calls it quits early by setting up camp and killing a squirrel for squirrel stew. He dreams about Jesse Veale an original settler killed by Comanches and how when he was in WWII in the pacific he hated the Japanese just like the whites hated the Indians. Graves threatens to quit if the rain won't stop but it finally does so he heads out the next morning.  

Back to things --- Graves details the history of the Sherman family and their run in with the local Indians. This guy named two-feathers and his band of Comanche brothers heckles these Irish people then rapes, tortures, and kills them except for one which turns out to be the mother of [[Directory:Quanah Parker|Quanah Parker]]. Graves finishes by bitching about historical inaccuracies and the Hollywood fictionalized version of the old west. At the end of the chapter Graves tells us how he is a world traveler and compared to world history the settling of the old west isn't a very big deal yet it is extremely important to him and makes up an important part of his being.

Back to things --- Graves details the history of the Sherman family and their run in with the local Indians. This guy named two-feathers and his band of Comanche brothers heckles these Irish people then rapes, tortures, and kills them except for one which turns out to be the mother of [[Directory:Quanah Parker|Quanah Parker]]. Graves finishes by bitching about historical inaccuracies and the Hollywood fictionalized version of the old west. At the end of the chapter Graves tells us how he is a world traveler and compared to world history the settling of the old west isn't a very big deal yet it is extremely important to him and makes up an important part of his being.

 

==Part 2==

==Part 2==

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