He embarked on the expedition after learning of. Garden and Gun magazine editor in chief David DiBenedetto tweeted today that he had just read the book again and had been 'marveling at its brilliance. Gravess narrative describes a three-week canoe trip down the Brazos River in Texas taken by the author in 1957. But it was his first book, his memoir, that remains his most enduring. The most recent book from Graves was 2007's My Dogs and Guns, a collection of short stories.

His canoe trip ended near Glen Rose, in the area southwest of Fort Worth where he would eventually settle and where he reportedly died this week. Headed down the river, Graves took along a dachshund, some supplies, and a wealth of personal and historic knowledge that he shared with his readers. The book had a deceptively simple premise: In the late 1950s, Graves took a canoe ride down miles and miles of the Brazos River in north-central Texas, where a plan to build dams, and irrevocably alter the terrain, was being put in place. His 1960 memoir Goodbye to a River, which recounted his tracing of a doomed waterway he knew in his youth, 'was quickly recognized as a classic,' as NPR member station KERA reports. YouTubeĪuthor John Graves, whose books became icons of rural life in Texas, has died at 92, according to multiple reports. KERA's Art and Seek visits author John Graves at his Hill Country home, a place called Hard Scrabble. By John Graves Travel & Outdoors Big River A photographic tour of the timeless Rio Grande, from its origins in the mountains of Colorado to the Padre Island dunes at the tip of.

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