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Clint Murchison, Jr.
He was one tycoon who enjoyed the hell out of his money.
June 1, 1987 | by Gary Cartwright | Texas Primer
Murchison supports Perry higher ed reforms
| by Paul Burka
The World’s First Hamburger
The world’s first hamburger was served in Athens, Texas, no matter what Mr. Cutlets says.
August 1, 2009 | by Gary Cartwright | Feature
The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes
January 1, 2009 | by Mike Shea | Book Review
The Dallas Cowboys
The franchise known as America's Team started in 1960, and in the years since then it has caused its partisans unfathomable heartache, joy, frustration, elation, pride, rage, happiness, fury, rapture . . .
The Jones Gang
You know the real reason Texas Stadium has no roof? So Jerry Jones can get his head inside. (Or, how the Cowboys owner’s ego makes it hard to root for America’s Team.)
March 1, 1996 | by Gary Cartwright | Feature
Game Changers
How Lamar Hunt and Clint Murchison Jr. cooked up the first Super Bowl.
February 1, 2009 | by Bryan Burrough | Oil and Football
Texas Primer: The Cotton Bowl
The ghosts of bowl games past recall an era when cotton and the Cotton Bowl were king in Texas.
January 1, 1988 | by Lawrence Wright | Texas Primer
Aftermath
Sympathy for Jerry Hall
March 1, 1999 | by Evan Smith | Low Talk
Wild Kingdom
Tucked away near tiny Murchison, Black Beauty Ranch is a refuge for injured, abused, or abandoned animals—even after the death of its guiding spirit, Cleveland Amory.
January 1, 1999 | by Michael Blumenthal | Texana

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