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Meet the Dog People of the Big Thicket
James Eason was checking his lines for catfish one sunny morning last fall when he idled down the Neches River in his flat-bottomed boat and stopped to visit his nephew Randy Bouse, who was showing me the houseboat he had cobbled together from scraps of an old flooded-out travel trailer.“I caught a mess of blue cats,” Eason called out. He tied off and scrambled aboard the front porch, his bare feet caked with dry mud.“It’s good to be on your toes,” Bouse joked.Exposed toes on a murky waterway like the Neches may raise eyebrows for the uninitiated—even for a fellow East Texan like me—but old-timers in this remote corner of the Big Thicket 35 or so miles north of Beaumont will tell you that there’s…The post Meet the Dog People of the Big Thicket appeared first on Texas Monthly.