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Bridges Over the Brazos
Jon McConal
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Description for Bridges Over the Brazos
Paperback. A story of two men with a love of the out-doors and the Brazos River and the people they met along their journey. It explores the Brazos and its bridges. The Brazos River meanders 923 miles from the Texas Panhandle to the Gulf of Mexico. Journalist Jon McConal and Eddie Lane met the people who lived near the bridges, and heard their stories. Num Pages: 176 pages, 12 b&w photos, maps, list of bridges, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 426.
The Brazos River meanders 923 miles from the Texas Panhandle to the Gulf of Mexico, crossing the High Plains, the West Texas Lower Rolling Plains, the Western Cross Timbers, the Grand Prairie, and the Gulf Coastal Plain. Journalist Jon McConal has spent many hours hiking the river's banks and camping out on its sandbars, discovering the many bridges that cross the river, and studying maps and tracing the river's route. His friend Eddie Lane has canoed and camped the Brazos, even retracing the canoe journey made famous by John Graves in Goodbye to a River. The two drove more than ... Read more
The Brazos River meanders 923 miles from the Texas Panhandle to the Gulf of Mexico, crossing the High Plains, the West Texas Lower Rolling Plains, the Western Cross Timbers, the Grand Prairie, and the Gulf Coastal Plain. Journalist Jon McConal has spent many hours hiking the river's banks and camping out on its sandbars, discovering the many bridges that cross the river, and studying maps and tracing the river's route. His friend Eddie Lane has canoed and camped the Brazos, even retracing the canoe journey made famous by John Graves in Goodbye to a River. The two drove more than ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Texas Christian University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
286
Place of Publication
Fort Worth, United States
ISBN
9780875653129
SKU
V9780875653129
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-78
About Jon McConal
A native of West Texas, Jon McConal was on the staff of the Fort Worth Star - Telegram for forty years, twenty as a contributing editor and twenty as a columnist, writing most often about rural and old-time Texas. Now retired, he and his wife make their home in Granbury. McConal is the author of Jon McConal's Texas and My ... Read more
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