WESTERN COWBOY RELOADS

When I was 4 years old, I had an imaginary Cowboy friend. His name was Tex. One summer day my neighbor across the street was sitting in her breezeway with a female friend I hadn’t met before. They were laughing a lot and loudly. I walked up to them and the friend thought I was adorable and she asked me my name and I told her and I introduced her to my friend, Tex, “He’s a Cowboy” motioning with both arms to the air at my right. They laughed a lot and loudly.

Tex died that day. They killed Tex.

WENDOVER WILL

Your left wrist looks a little too limp for my comfort, cowboy.

WENDOVER WILL
Wendover, Nevada

Standing in front of the new modern State Line Hotel in Wendover, Nevada is this Giant Cowboy—”Wendover Will”. This friendly cowhand stands sixty-four feet high and weighs approximately nine tons. A symbolic figure of the Big West. “Will” is the largest mechanical cowboy sign in the world. 

TEX

Tex, if you’d like to break into a larger market, start by emblazoning your name on your instrument with something other than electrical tape.

TEX FORMAN, popular entertainer who has had thousands of friends in and around Ohio, through his broadcasts since 1943 over radio station WMAN, Mansfield, Ohio.

The COWBOYS are BIGGER in TEXAS

Verso:
“BIG TEX
The world’s tallest cowboy, 60 feet high, at the entrance to the State Fair Grounds, the world’s largest State Fair, Dallas, Texas.”

To my brain, a STATE fair takes place in a STATE in the United STATES, so calling it the WORLD’S largest is inflating the brag. Everything else in Texas, however, is the World’s Largest.

HOWDY PARDNER! I’M SADDLED UP…

…and heading your way with the exciting new line of Panhandle Slim, Ranch and Town, Eddy Bros. Hats; Stanton’s Sunset Trails and Oasis Frontier Neckwear. See you on or about ______________, be the Good Lord willing and the creek don’t rise.