A tour of small town Texas

By Elspeth Callender
Updated November 15 2017 - 1:23pm, first published 1:20pm

Everything's bigger in Texas, they say. And that's a fact if you're talking hats, cattle ranches, steaks, open-pit barbecues and the midriffs of oil tycoons. Puffed up with state pride and dreams of secession, the largest state in the Lower 48 borders Mexico for hundreds of miles along the Rio Grande then spreads, broad and bottom-heavy, partway around the Gulf. But beneath all the bigger-is-better bragging and bravado lies something undersized and understated the Lone Star State holds dear: small town Texas.

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