These collected tales some taller than others offer revealing glimpses into how and why West Texans are different. Rugged enough to make the harshest of environments their own, this species thrives in hundred-degree-plus heat and near-zero humidity. Folks like the crop duster who nearly sets his plane down in the bed of a pickup, the boll weevil whose naivete is tested in the oil patch, and Frank the Goofy Roofer, who enters a bullfight with nothing more than a denim jacket and a bottle of beer, are far from rare.All these yarns contain a grain of truth, and some of them actually happened...