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vii Table of Contents CONTENTS List of Maps and Illustrations xi Preface xiii Introduction 1 Geomorphology 4 Floods 8 Area Map of Neches River 14 PART ONE — 15 Detail Maps 16 Part One, Day 1 — 20 Launch off Part One 20 Town Bluff 21 McQueen’s Landing 24 River Residents 25 Birds 25 Turtles 27 Aquatic Insects 32 Fish 33 George Smythe 37 Family Farm 38 Lakes 41 Cowart’s Bend 43 Part One, Day 2 — 47 Buried Forest 47 Sycamores 49 Round Lake and Buzzards 50 Beavers 53 Canyonlands 57 “Nigger” Bend 60 Work’s Bluff 60 Night Sounds 62 Owls 64 Wild Geese 65 Part One, Day 3 — 69 Bob Parvin 69 Red Bluff 71 Thompson Cemetery 72 Town Ants 73 viii Table of Contents Sheffield’s Ferry 82 Sheffield’s Ferry Bridge 84 PART TWO — 87 Detail Maps 88 Part Two, Day 1 — 95 Scott’s Landing 95 Dogs 100 Joe’s Lake Pasture 108 Wolves and Panthers 109 Little Critters 110 Bingham Lake 112 Hord’s Bend 113 First Night 115 Explorer Scouts and Fog Flow 117 Part Two, Day 2 — 121 Second Day 121 Armadillos 122 Three Rivers 125 Cat Eason 128 Wright’s Landing 130 Willis Payne Camp 132 Martin Ramer 134 Second Night 149 Part Two, Day 3 — 140 Third Day 140 Smith’s Bend 140 The Ranch 142 Bush Lake 143 Pebble Island 145 Sand 146 Crawfish 148 I. C. Eason 150 Part Two, Day 4 — 163 Log Rafting 163 Yellow Bluff 168 Sally Withers Lake 174 Alligators 175 The Clan MacBaean 178 [44.222.220.101] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 11:29 GMT) ix Table of Contents David Crockett 180 Hardin-Tyler County Line 183 Ivory-billed Woodpecker 184 Timber Slough and Peach Tree Ridge 194 Ernest Spell 197 River Float Trips 201 Gourdvine Eddy 203 Caney Head and the Dog People 205 Gene Barrington 211 Houston Thompson 213 War in the Bottomlands 214 National Park Service in the Bottomlands 219 Holifield Family 222 Jim Burns’ Beer Joint 227 Indian Piney Woods 230 The Old Wagon Road 235 Jack Gore Baygall 244 Jack Gore Baygall Unit 248 Neches Bottom Unit 250 The Last Bear Hunt 253 Bear Man’s Bluff 255 Part Two, Day 5 — 258 Gore Landing 258 Riverboats 264 Pearl River Bend 271 Goat Neck Bend and Almond Hole 273 Rabbits 274 Evadale Bridge 276 PART THREE — 279 Detail Maps 280 Part Three, Day 1 — 285 Evadale 285 Honkytonk Road and Country Music 288 Indian Mounds 291 Bats 293 Gentry Lake 294 Weiss Bluff 295 Shinny Lake 296 Jasper-Orange County Line 301 Village Creek 302 x Table of Contents Lakeview 304 Part Three, Day 1, First Night 306 Part Three, Day 2 — 309 L.N.V.A. Canal 309 Cypress Island 310 Mosquitoes 313 Regal Fern Bog 319 Four Oaks Ranch 320 George Burge 321 Scatterman Lake 322 Bunn’s Bluff 323 Charlie Schwartz 324 Pine Island Bayou 327 Snakes 331 Cook’s Lake 339 Saga of the Bayou Queen 340 George Bush 343 Beaumont 347 Conclusion, Part Three 351 Index — 353 ...