Everything’s bigger in Texas, and that goes double for Big Tex, the tallest cowboy in the West. For nearly 60 years, the 52-foot-tall statue presided over the State Fair of Texas, greeting generations of fair goers with a booming “Howdy, folks!” throughout the annual 24-day event. That is, until the day Big Tex went up in flames due to an electrical short. “It was the last Friday of the Fair in 2012, ” says Sue Gooding, senior vice presi

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