It’s no surprise most people know Big Tex as the State Fair of Texas’ host-with-themost – after all, he’s had the job for 65 years – but before coming to Big D in 1952, Tex played the role of another well-known character in a small Texas town due east of Corsicana.
Inthefree-wheelingyears afterWorldWarII,merchants in Kerens, Texas, had a problem. Residents of the tiny town d...
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