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COPYRIGHT 2004 Texas Monthly, Inc.
Texas Myth # 514
TEXAS IS HOME TO THE SAGUARO CACTUS. You won't find the saguaro growing naturally in Texas; it flourishes chiefly in Arizona. Still, the fantasy endures. The stately cactus has been featured widely in Texas postcards, movies (1984's Flashpoint, set near San Antonio), and book-jacket art (Mary Willis Walker's The Red Scream). Walker says that when her New York editor sent her the cover, it showed a buzzard atop a saguaro: "I said that that kind of cactus didn't grow in Texas. She said, 'Oh, well. Nobody would...
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