A book runs through it: Hays County author Wes Ferguson shares tales from his river adventures

By Kim Hilsenbeck

Wes Ferguson’s childhood near Longview, Texas, did not include swimming, tubing, fishing, wading or rope swinging into the Sabine River. It was the opposite, in fact. He and most everyone else in his tiny east Texas town of Liberty City avoided the Sabine like the plague.

“Dirty, polluted, snake-infested, full of dead bodies” were common descriptions of the muddy brown body of water that ran through his hometown.