It imagines us approaching a West Texas crossroad in a spirit of unfettered spontaneity.
But 600 miles west in Texas a drought was taking hold and wildfires raged.
The West Texas seed had a reputation for poor by-products, and therefore brought low prices.
The grandson of a Dutch immigrant who settled in hardscrabble West Texas, Koch can sound like a Calvinist minister at times.
West, Texas, is a community of about 2, 800 people, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Democrat Ciro Rodriguez, a former congressman, led in the race to take on incumbent GOP Rep. Quico Canseco, who represents a West Texas district that spans from San Antonio to El Paso.
Gilmore, a singer from West Texas, writes songs that would be described as alternative country.
Bakken crude even trades at a discount to West Texas Intermediate (WTI), the benchmark oil for the US set by prices in Cushing, Oklahoma.
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In 1987, Willis had been convicted of setting a fire, in West Texas, that killed two women.
In West, Texas, which is near Waco, a fertilizer plant exploded on Wednesday, killing at least five people, injuring more than 160, and leveling homes, apartments and a school.
If ExxonMobil is looking at a shortage of sweet-light in its mid-western refineries, they can go to the futures market and buy a few weeks supply of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for delivery in 60 days.
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Amazon.com (nasdaq: AMZN - news - people ) founder Jeff Bezos is building a testing and operations center in West Texas.
Assistant State Fire Marshal Kelly Kistner told CNN that 18 Texas firefighters have died on duty so far this year, including 10 first responders killed in an explosion at a fertilizer distribution facility in West, Texas.
After graduation Bush embarked on a career in the oil industry of West Texas.
Back then, in the Permian era, a vast inland sea covered much of west Texas and south-eastern New Mexico.
The PCOM was born in the late 1930s as a desperate act of self-defense by West Texas cotton farmers, who at the time could hardly give their seed away.
George Bush senior proved his manhood by making a fortune in the hard-scrabble world of west Texas.
The Texas National Guard sent a water purification team to the West End.
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After a day off Monday, the team hopes to have him back Tuesday night for the opener of a three-game series against AL West-leading Texas.
Initial tests showed the device contained ammonium nitrate, the same volatile substance that sparked a massive explosion last month at a fertilizer distribution plant 110 miles north in West, Texas, said Austin fire Lt.
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has always been incredibly secretive about his own space investment, a company called Blue Origin based near Seattle but with a rocket launch facility out in the wilds of west Texas.
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After a day off Monday, the team hopes to have him back Tuesday night for the opener of a three-game series against the AL West-leading Texas Rangers.
This morning Chesapeake Energy announced that it had entered into a deal to sell the majority of its assets in west Texas to Chevron and Shell.
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Mr. Estes again went to prison after being convicted of tax charges in 1979 but returned to wheeling and dealing on his release a few years later with a never-realized scheme to grow wine grapes in West Texas.
Red states Texas, Oklahoma, Wyoming, West Virginia, Montana and North Dakota (and a few blue states like Ohio and Pennsylvania) are getting rich from oil and gas drilling.
San Antonio's previous record flooding in 1998 was devastating, caused by heavy rains throughout south Texas and by a plume of moist air from Hurricane Madeline off the west coast of Mexico.
By Sunday, it said in a statement, Air National Guard personnel from Texas, Delaware, West Virginia, Oklahoma and Tennessee had evacuated 247 patients from Beaumont, Texas, and taken them to Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio.
In 1990, Poindexter bought Cibolo Creek Ranch, a 30, 000-acre spread near Big Bend National Park in west Texas.
It's a technique that has been used for years in the Permian Basin of west Texas, which is rich with naturally occurring carbon dioxide.
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