Save Tex Randall

Tex Randall

Some very generous Texans are working to save an old and, unfortunately, forgotten icon known as Tex Randall. They are asking for your help.

RoadsideAmerica.com tells part of Tex’s story: He’s been here in Canyon since 1959. Industrial arts teacher Harry Wheeler built “Texas’ Biggest Texan” to promote his Western curio shop. Tex Randall is 47 feet tall and weighs seven tons…

The following is from the Save Tex Randall Facebook group.

The 47 foot tall icon of Canyon Texas is in danger of destruction. We need to save the original Big Texan.
Ten Bucks from everyone is all it takes. For that we all get a nice new park and a restored Tex Randall…Tex is threatened with destruction. The 47-foot tall cowboy may be shoved aside to make way for a new business. A diner owner in Canyon bought Tex for his own business, then found out moving and installation costs would top $50,000, which he can’t afford.
Our mission is to acquire Tex and the land he’s standing on, restore Tex to his former glory, turning the property into a public-use picnic park, and maintaining Tex and the property in perpetuity.
We will do this with donations of funds and/or services or cost breaks on services. Your help is essential…

Read some of the wall postings and blog posts referenced on the sight and consider what you can do to help.

Note: Image of Tex Randall copyright © CaptiveImage.us. Displayed by permission of Dusty Reigns and CaptiveImage.us.

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