We are drawn to the unique landscape and culture of West Texas. There is a palpable sense of place and whilst it is a long way from home, the relationships we have forged over the years make it seem like home. We might not spend as much time in Texas as Taylor Sheridan, but we fully understand why his focus is here.
Texas is known for a state of mind that is pro business and pro collaboration. Across most of America, securing an airport’s permission to bring some horses and some cattle onto the runway would be a formidable challenge, but In Texas, little requests like this don’t really raise much of an eyebrow, especially if the cow is a prize winning longhorn.
The town of Alpine sits about 80 miles north of the Mexican border and its 6,000 inhabitants would not appear to have many local hotspots to boast of - it is a modest community with basic amenities. However, the local airport sits in a natural amphitheatre that is ideal for storytelling and that was really all that mattered to us.
We would like to thank the A-26 Invader’s pilot - Roger Woolsey - for landing his beautiful plane at Alpine and then role playing for us. The bomber - which was active in the Battle of the Bulge in 1944 - is a beast of a prop to have and I think the longhorn gives it a very necessary sense of scale. I would imagine that the standoff was a first for both the bomber and the longhorn.
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