![]() The Brazos is the third largest river in Texas and the largest between the Red River and the Rio Grande. He knew that if the five proposed dams were built along the Brazos, the area would be irreparably changed. (The piece become more philosophy than sport and was published in Holiday instead of SI.) Graves’ strong sense of history was inspired by summers visiting his grandfather in Cuero in South Texas and merged with his keen feelings for the natural world developed during the time he spent in the Trinity River bottom near his home in Fort Worth. ![]() He had written a number of magazine pieces for various publications at that point, and he had a contract with Sports Illustrated to do a piece on the canoe trip. ![]() John Graves’ most significant work is Goodbye to a River-part history, part memoir, and part travelogue-based on his canoe trip down the Brazos River in 1957. ![]()
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