The Lamesa Incident
Future Pulitzer Prize winner Larry McMurtry wrote an essay back in the 1960s about a trip he took across Texas.
Related in his book In a Narrow Grave, his experiences may or may not have been true, but one of his sentences stands the test of time:
“Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas and not eat a chicken fried steak.”
Recently, my …
