Jacob's Well.
Ah,yes. To see what is beyond the gate, you should read Jacob's Well by Stephen
Harrigan . Those cavers that I hired to work on the Texas Natural Areas Survey
(which helped get Devil's Sinkhole, the Lower Canyons, Mt. Livermore, Devil's
River, Big Bend Ranch State Park, Enchanted Rock, and other places set aside in
the Public Domain) will recognize slightly-disguised cavers and their
colleagues from the70s. Not only is Dwight Deal the heroic (although flawed)
model for the geologist, you can recognize parts of Ronnie Fieseler, Tom Byrd,
and Ron Ralph, Gary Moore, and certainly remember the Lady Archaeologist who
did field work in the nude.
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