Goodbye to a River is a book by John Graves, published in 1960. It is a "semi-historical" account of a canoe trip made by the author during the Fall of 1957 down a stretch of the Brazos River in North Central Texas, between Possum Kingdom Dam and Lake Whitney. The Brazos River, called the Rio de los Brazos de Dios by early Spanish explorers (translated as "The River of the Arms of God" is the 11th longest river in the Texas ( is a state geographically located in the South Central United States and is also known as the Lone Star State. Possum Kingdom Lake (popularly known as PK) located primarily in Palo Pinto County Texas, is a 20000 acre (81 km² lake on the Brazos River Lake Whitney is the only flood control Reservoir on the main stem of the Brazos River in the state of Texas The book contains both the author's account of the trip itself and numerous stories about the history and settlement of the area around the river and of North Central Texas. The title refers to Graves's childhood association with the river and the country surrounding it, and his fear of the "drowning" effect that a proposed series of flood-control dams (most notably, Lake Granbury) would have on the river. Lake Granbury is a Fresh-water man-made North Texas Lake in Granbury Texas.
Only three of the dams were ever built on the river, though, at one time, up to thirteen were proposed at various locations along its course to the Gulf of Mexico. The Gulf of Mexico ( Spanish: Golfo de México) is the ninth largest Body of water in the world The success of Goodbye to a River is often cited as a major reason that the proposed dams were never built.
The book is acclaimed as a work of both conservationism and history and is often compared to Walden by Henry David Thoreau. Conservation can be confused with Conversation and vice versa History is the study of the past particularly the written record Those who study history as a Profession are called Historians Etymology Walden (first published as Walden or Life in the Woods) by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known Non-fiction books written
For the 2007-2008 academic year, Texas State University-San Marcos selected Goodbye to a River as the core text for its University Seminar, a course required of all first-year students. Texas State University–San Marcos, often referred to as Texas State University, Texas State, or TxState (it actively discourages the use of "TSU"
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