Long-time friend of the Houston Canoe Club Louis Aulbach is noted both as an author of West Texas river guides and as a historian of Buffalo Bayou. You may remember the programs he has presented at our monthly meetings. Now, as part of a fundraiser to offset the disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the Houston Archaeological Society is offering a set of Louis Aulbach's six guidebooks to paddling the rivers of West Texas, including the Pecos, the Devils and the Rio Grande, plus his hiking guide to the Big Bend Ranch State Park, for auction on Ebay.
The link to this auction is https://www.ebay.com/itm/TAS-AUCTION-2020-FANTASTIC-SET-OF-6-GUIDEBOOKS-TO-THE-BIG-BEND-OF-WEST-TEXAS/224030368332?hash=item342940224c:g:QxQAAOSwofVe09jl
Closing date for the auction is 7:00 PM this coming Sunday June 7. If you have questions, please contact Linda Gorski at lindagorski@cs.com .
This is a great opportunity to get the whole set of guides, and to help out a fellow organization at the same time. So, please, bid generously.
To learn more about the river guides, check out the 2017 interview that Louis did for Marfa Public Radio at https://marfapublicradio.org/blog/nature-notes/handbooks-to-adventure-louis-aulbachs-west-texas-river-guides/ .
