On Texas trail ride to Houston Rodeo, Chronicle reporter, Chicago native, swaps subway for saddle
I’ve called Bruno out of the blue on a Tuesday afternoon because he’s graciously allowed me to tag along on the trail ride, which starts Sunday morning and ends with a parade through downtown Houston the following Saturday. Our conversation is brief, about five minutes long. I’m sure he’s busy preparing for the journey and I don’t want to take too much of his time. I ask him what I’ll need to bring with me.Easy enough. I’ll expense the 50 bucks and borrow camping gear from my editor .
Two bolo ties — also gifts, and the subject of many a compliment on the single time I wore one of them. Martin González holding a horse while his father, Margarito, applies a brand at their home in Higueras, Mexico, likely in the late 1940s. González, grandfather of Chronicle reporter Sam González Kelly, was known as"El Diablo En Caballo" in the small, northeast Mexican town before emigrating to Chicago in the 1950s.
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