Christian Wallace

He wanted to become a serious literary novelist, like Faulkner or Hemingway. Fortunately for millions of Hank the Cowdog fans, he failed.

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He’s pushing ninety and still saddling up at the Four Sixes Ranch. Just don’t call him the last cowboy.

Christian Wallace is a staff writer from West Texas. Before joining Texas Monthly as a fact-checker, in March 2016, Wallace worked as a roughneck, a ditch digger, an electrician, a record store clerk, and a radio DJ. He earned BAs in history and English at Texas State University in San Marcos, and h…

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And everybody won.

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