"People who were involved in my upbringing, in my philosophy of life and whatever. Well, of course my mother and father and my older sister who was eight years older than me, she took care of me a lot, and then probably the primary one was my A
"Myself and three other guys went down to Laredo, Texas where we hunted. Saturday night came and we decided that we would go across the border into Mexico because there was a cafe over there. This cafe specialized in all kind of exotic animals.
"I had a cousin named Marion Thurman. He went by Sonny Thurman and he worked for Haliburton and he had this bird dog. He got transferred so he gave it to me when I was in high school because I used to hunt a lot. And when I went off to college,
“When I was in high school, there was an old man who moved into Pledger. His name was Andrew M. Langford and he was in his 80s and had been a part of the US Army in the Spanish-American War. He wasn’t with Teddy Roosevelt’s volunteers but they
Marion Matthew “Mack” Malone Jr grew up in rural Texas in the 1950s and 1960s working cattle and riding in rodeos. He studied Sociology at Texas A&M and became a social studies teacher. He later became a purchasing manager for an oil field comp