Brison Bursey grew up in Quanah, Texas, one of those faded towns that Larry McMurtry has written about so well, the sort of town where Jacy’s still the prettiest girl in town and Sonny’s still taking it on the chin. Quanah’s on US-287, eighty miles from Wichita Falls, the nearest town of significant size, and it’s named after Quanah Parker, the last Comanche chief. But if the kids
in McMurtry’s fictional version of nearby Archer City grew up on the last-run picture shows, the kids of Brison ...