Midnight. Euless, Texas. John McCord holds forth in Denny’s Restaurant with a tale about the day he and Jack Ballas did a book signing somewhere in the wild and wooly boonies south of Dallas. “Big ole boy in coveralls strolled up. Blocked access to our whole table. After he’d told us everything he ever knew about the legendary West, we each tried to sell him one of our fine literary efforts. “Man wasn’t buying. Proudly declared, ‘I don’t read. Never cared for it.’ I shot a gla
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