Canyon, Texas - Tex Randall, Big Texan

Canyon, Texas - Tex Randall, Big Texan

A cool cowboy giant, standing here in Canyon, Texas since 1959. Roadsideamerica.com Report...

Canyon, Texas - Tex Randall And PETA: No Deal

Tex Randall, Big Texan: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent a message on Nov. 10 to Danny Byrd, who owns the towering Tex Randall cowboy statue. [11/11/2008] Complete Story...

Canyon, Texas - Boot Hill for Tex Randall?

Tex Randall Statue: The giant statue of Tex Randall, the lean and leaning cowboy, has been a looming fixture in Canyon, Texas, for almost 50 years. But the ground beneath his size 75 boots is up for sale, and the town faces a vexing problem: can it afford to move its hardscrabbled civic symbol? [06/22/2008] Complete Story...

Canyon, Texas - Tex Randall

When we visited Texas Randall we were taking photos of one another when a local pulled up to meet a friend. He offered to take our photo and then told us that they had planned on moving him further into Amarillo. [Jennifer Covarrubias, 02/05/2008]

Canyon, Texas - Tex Randall

The store is closed -- again -- although we met one of the previous owners' family members today. The clothes Tex has been wearing were actually sponsored by Levis yearly, as far as we understood. His legs are in bad shape not only due to the crash, but also because those holes were used for access to probe the interior, in order to find out if he was stable enough to be moved -- which sadly was not the case.

As a special attraction, you might want to knock on the doors of the local garage shops. The owners have some very interesting vehicles stored up, and are happy to see some new faces now and then. [Derrits Mapp, 11/19/2007]