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In Texas, the thin line between fact & fiction becomes indistinguishable by bragging. Texas Tall Tales usually involve all three.

 "BIG  TEX"

The friendly, welcoming symbol of the Texas State Fair stands a whopping 52 feet tall and wears the largest pair of jeans in the world; size 276 with a 23 foot waist and size 70 boots. What Wal-Mart wouldn't do to have him as their greeter.  Fact, fiction or bragging?

The tallest ferris wheel in the Western Hemisphere is at the State Fair of Texas in Dallas.  Fact, fiction or bragging?

Texas owns the North bank of the Rio Grande, the only river in the world navigable by pedestrians. Fact, fiction or bragging?

After eating an entire Texas Longhorn bull, a mountain lion felt so good that he roared for hours.  He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him graveyard dead.  Moral to the story:  If you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut!!

A local rancher had 2 Texas Longhorn bulls freeze to death last August.  They rambled through a broken fence into a cornfield.  It was so hot the corn kernels began popping.  The bulls thought it was snow, and froze to death!!  Fact, or fiction?

In 1916, a group of Aggies branded the University of Texas' mascot with "13 - 0", the score of a previous Texas A&M victory.  Unable to remove the brand, it was altered by connecting the 1 and 3 to form a B, the - into an E, and inserting a V before the 0, and thus BEVO was born. Fact, fiction or bragging?

Located in the Panhandle city of Amarillo, Texas, The Big Texan Steak Ranch offers a challenging dinner special.  The meal consists of a 72 ounce top sirloin steak, salad, baked potato, dinner roll and shrimp cocktail. If you don't yell "calf rope" and are able to finish it within the given hour time limit, the entire meal is free.  Since the early 1960's over 42,000 people have made the attempt, with about 8,000 who can call themselves Big Texan Champions.  Winners include an 11 year old boy, a 69 year old grandmother, a former major league baseball player who completed the meal in 91/2 minutes, and a professional wrestler who wolfed down TWO of the Texas sized meals. Fact, fiction or bragging?

 Sections of U.S. 81 and U.S. 287 in Montague County (located NW of Dallas, Texas, E of Wichita Falls, Texas with the Red River serving as its northern border) should be called "golden roads".  In 1936, sand containing approximately $250,000 worth of gold was mixed into the concrete for 39 miles of the two highways. Fact, fiction or bragging?

Everybody knows that Pecos Bill was the greatest cowboy that ever lived.  It was said he could ride anything and not a soul could remember a time when he'd been thrown off.  To prove it, he decided to ride the biggest, ugliest, meanest lookin' tornado anyone had ever seen.  Pecos Bill grabbed it, threw it down to the ground and jumped on its back. That tornado was so mad it whipped and whirled its way through Texas, cussing all the while.  It tried so hard to shake Pecos Bill off, it tied all the rivers into knots and flattened the forests to the point they had to rename a part of Texas "The Staked Plains", but Bill just rode along, giving that tornado an occasional jab with his spurs. 

Deciding that it wasn't going to be able to throw him off, the tornado headed west toward California and just rained itself out.  It made so much water that it washed out The Grand Canyon.  It was down to just a breeze when Pecos Bill fell off.  He hit the ground so hard, it sank below sea level.  Folks call that place Death Valley.  Now you know how the rodeo got started, though most cowboys stick to riding broncos and bulls. Fact, fiction or bragging?

Maverick Cattle

It is believed that the term "maverick" originated with a Texas lawyer named Col. Samuel Maverick. Apparently Col. Maverick purchased a herd of cattle but failed to brand them. As a result, the unbranded cattle became known as mavericks. Cattlemen in the early West believed they had the right to take possession of "mavericks" they found on the open range. Fact or fiction.