Rebuilding after fire is just one of many Big Tex tall tales
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When Big Tex burned last October, Texas State Fair goers felt as if they’d lost an old friend; after all, Big Tex had been a fixture at the fair since 1952. But most fairgoers probably don’t know that Tex hasn’t always been at the fair. He has traveled out of state. In 1953, Roger Reynolds, a Dallas salesman and local president of the Jaycees, got a bright idea: why not take Big Tex to show off at the National Jaycees Convention in Minneapolis?
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