Real men don’t spin folk tales

Of Possums and Persimmons

Texas Small Tales

Source image by Evelyn D. Harrison

OF ALL THE LEGENDS OF THE WEST, mainly meaning legends of Texas — which is bigger than the whole wide west and wider to boot — ain’t no legend with an object lesson better known and less told than the legend of Dimebox Dan. Dimebox Dan, the cowboy who belonged nowhere near a ranch, nor horse, nor cow, nor even…