Pat Gee's Barbecue

May 24, 2017 — By Michael Hall

The essence of Texas barbecue—past and present—is in the Piney Woods.

Jun 24, 2016 — By Daniel Vaughn

The hand-painted wooden sign reads “Pat’s Barbecue,” but everybody calls it Pat Gee’s after its late founder, Mack Henry “Pat” Gee, who opened this barbecue shack east of Tyler, deep in the piney woods, sometime around 1963. Pat, his wife Vida, and their seven children lived just up the hill…