Word: bayou
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Janet Flockhart had explored the woods near her home trying to track down a putrid smell that had long bothered her family. She eventually found the source-a decaying, fly-covered pile of garbage on the banks of Sims Bayou. Now, she said, she knew why fish had never been able to live in the bayou...
...still bare -he bought a nursery firm, used its stock to landscape his vast lawns, and sold the company at a $1,500 profit. Then he argued his creditors into letting him go on drilling. After that he really got rich with a string of successful explorations at Chocolate Bayou, Anchor, Bailey's Prairie, Coleto Creek, Angleton, Winnie-Stowell and Blue Lake...
...Named for Erastus Smith (1787-1838), who, although deaf, commanded the scouts in General Sam Houston's army. "Deaf" Smith swam the flooded Buffalo Bayou, captured a courier with dispatches for Santa Anna and, on the morning of the battle of San Jacinto, burned the only bridge on which the Mexicans could retreat...
...takes an eye as knowing as Cap'n Bryant's to find wistful hints of glories past,* when she was the biggest, flossiest playhouse afloat. Those were the magnolia-scented days when the showboats moved as regularly as the spring floods and, according to legend, a Bayou mother could say of her child, "He'll be foah, come next floatin' showhouse." Today, twelve years after the Goldenrod became a virtual landlubber at her St. Louis mooring, Cap'n Menke, 70, talks (as he does each year) of getting up steam again. "With her new hull...
...slump is not only in high-priced furs. In the Louisiana bayou country, where trappers sold $11 million worth of muskrat, raccoon, opossum and other cheap furs last year, there were few buyers as the 1948 trapping season opened. Fur dealers were still loaded up with last year's skins...