When freelance producer Luis Barreto presented his idea for a hands-on history PBS series to Craig Carter, the cowboy-wrangler told Barreto he was out of his mind. Texas Ranch House, Carter said, was a stupid idea. “He told me, ‘This is never going to work. You don’t have enough time to train these people. You guys are nutty if you think this is easy work,’” Barreto recalls. “Then the guy holds up his hand and his thumb’s missing, and he tells me, ‘I did this when I had 10 yea
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