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In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed over the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream’s regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, as would the lives of folks whose rugged ancestors had eked out an existence there. Graves therefore made a decision to visit that stretch of the river, which he previously known intimately as a youth.
Goodbye to a River is his account of that farewell canoe voyage. As he braves rapids and fatigue and the fickle autumn weather, he muses after old blood feuds of the spot and violent skirmishes with native tribes, and retells wild stories of courage and cowardice and deceit that shaped both the river’s people and the land during frontier times and later. Nearly half of a century following its initial publication, Goodbye to a River is a genuine American classic, a vivid narrative about an exciting journey and a robust tribute to a vanishing way of life and its own ever-changing environment.
