For a few recent weeks in King County, Texas, Samuel Burk Burnett himself might’ve turned the corner and tipped his hat to say hello to mustachioed wranglers and calico-skirted ladies—and felt completely at home.
The costumes and firearms and horse tack would’ve been familiar to him. The cowhands and the Comanches wouldn’t have surprised the cattleman either—though in...
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