Running the River

Secrets of the Sabine

De: Wes Ferguson

Narrado por: Wes Ferguson

Growing up near the Sabine, journalist Wes Ferguson, like most East Texans, steered clear of its murky, debris-filled waters, where alligators lived in the backwater sloughs and an occasional body was pulled from some out-of-the-way crossing. The Sabine held a reputation as a haunt for a handful of hunters and loggers, more than a few water moccasins, swarms of mosquitoes, and the occasional black bear lumbering through swamp oak and cypress knees.

But when Ferguson set out to do a series of newspaper stories on the upper portion of the river, he and photographer Jacob Croft Botter were entranced by the river’s subtle beauty and the solitude they found there. They came to admire the self-described “river rats” who hunted, fished, and swapped stories along the muddy water—plain folk who love the Sabine as much as Hill Country vacationers love the clear waters of the Guadalupe. Determined to travel the rest of the river, Ferguson and Botter loaded their gear and launched into the stretch of river that charts the line between the states and ends at the Gulf of Mexico.

©2014 Wes Ferguson (P)2022 Wes Ferguson

Entertaining

Very good exciting and drags you along for the journey wish I was younger I would do something like this.
Well done chaps good for you to follow a fancy and a dream.

"It bit me, bubba!"

Only in East Texas will you hear some of these phrases and East Texan Wes Ferguson braved the rapids, gunfire, and squirrel-eaters to bring them from the Sabine to the page. Often hilarious and always entertaining, this book is a worthwhile journey down one of Texas's most overlooked rivers. And by the book's end, even West Texans will care about the Sabine.