River of contrasts : the Texas Colorado / Margie Crisp ; foreword by Andrew Samson.

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Crisp, Margie, 1960-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: River books (Series)Publication details: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, 2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (228 pages) : color illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781603447478
1603447474

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: River of contrasts.DDC classification:

976.4 23

LOC classification:

F392.C6 C75 2012eb

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Contents:

Early spring on the High Plains: headwaters -- Impounded on the Rolling Plains -- River revealed: Cross Timbers and into the Llano uplift -- Another Colorado: the Highland Lakes and Lady Bird Lake -- Living downstream: east Austin through the Blackland Prairies -- Into the Gulf (almost): Gulf Coast prairies and Matagorda Bay.

Summary: Writer and artist Margie Crisp has traveled the length of Texas' Colorado River, which rises in Dawson County, south of Lubbock, and flows 860 miles southeast across the state to its mouth on the Gulf of Mexico at Matagorda Bay. Echoing the truth of Heraclitus's ancient dictum, the river's character changes dramatically from its dusty headwaters on the High Plains to its meandering presence on the coastal prairie. The Colorado is the longest river with both its source and its mouth in Texas, and its water, from beginning to end, provides for the state's agricultural, municipal, and recrea.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-213) and index.

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Writer and artist Margie Crisp has traveled the length of Texas' Colorado River, which rises in Dawson County, south of Lubbock, and flows 860 miles southeast across the state to its mouth on the Gulf of Mexico at Matagorda Bay. Echoing the truth of Heraclitus's ancient dictum, the river's character changes dramatically from its dusty headwaters on the High Plains to its meandering presence on the coastal prairie. The Colorado is the longest river with both its source and its mouth in Texas, and its water, from beginning to end, provides for the state's agricultural, municipal, and recrea.

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