I. C. Eason - The stories of I.C. Eason, King of the Dog People
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Neches River Valley (Tex.)--Social life and customs.
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1996
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F392.N35E25 1996eb
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976.4/276
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Neches River Valley (Tex.)--Social life and customs.
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The Stories of I. C. Eason
King of the Dog People
As Told to Blair Pittman
Photographs by Blair Pittman
Introduction by Don Moser
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Blair Pittman, 1996
All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First edition 1996
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The paper in this book meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, Z39.48-1984.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Eason, I. C. The stories of I. C. Eason, King of the Dog People / as told to Blair Pittman ; with photographs by Blair Pittman ; introduction by Don Moser. p. cm. ISBN 1-57441-012-1 1. Neches River Valley (Tex.)Social life and customs. I. Pittman, Blair, 1937 . II.Title. F392.N35E25 1996 976.4'276dc20 95-26622 CIP
Cover design by Amy Layton
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To the memory of I. C. Eason, and all the "little" people who love the land enough to fight for it.
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Contents
Preface
ix
Acknowledgments
xv
Introduction
by Don Moser
xvii
The Way It Was
1
My First Dog
6
Fishin' Story
14
First Pair of Shoes
21
The Bulls
23
Gran'ma and the Well
27
Panther and Red Oak
30
Haints and Spirits
33
The Snake and the Baby
37
The Snake, the Bird, and the Squirrel
39
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Squirrel Slot Machine
41
The Whiskey Still
45
Mama and the Deer
53
The HighwaySilsbee to Woodville
55
Leave All Mercy at Home
59
The Company Store
61
The Turnin' Point
64
The Land War
68
Epilogue
76
Album
83
Index
127
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Preface
The reddish-black swamp waters in the Neches River bottom reflect giant trees which stretch above a jungle-thick forest. Twisted rattan vines climb, reaching for the veiled sunlight, and cypress knees rise above the water to absorb the air they need to live. Marsh gas bubbles to the surface in backwater sloughs. The bottom is still a primal world where the bellow of a bull alligator, the scream of a panther, the howl of a red wolf, the splash of an unseen creature can be heard.
Out of the mists of prehistory, the Neches River has carried its life force through deep East Texas bottoms to the Gulf of Mexico. With wide, sweeping loops and turns the river flows, flooding and carving the land, dominating with nature's strength. It changes course and channel capriciously, leaving behind isolated lakes, ancient swamps, and low, flat, moist land. Here, an elevation of ten feet is called a hill. The annual rainfall of sixty to eighty inchesalong with periodic floodinghelps retain the standing waters and moisture. For most of this century, the bottom's swampy protective barriers held the modern world at bay.
Few people lived in the Neches River bottom when I first
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saw it in 1970. Except for an oil field here or a pipeline following the shortest distance there, man was not noticeable but for the occasional cabin or lean-to hunting camp built on the higher river bank ground. These belonged to the locals who had a grasp on land as stubborn as the river that shaped it.
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