Mike Capron’s TALES OF TEXAS

When I turned 8 years old my dad bought me my first rifle. It was a small 22 rifle, Winchester Model 67 A. It was a single shot and I hunted with it until after I graduated from high school. I took it to my first job the summer I graduated. I went to work for Solon Spence on a farm north of Artesia. We baled hay and chopped cotton and lived on the farm in a little adobe house. Solon saw my litt...