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Podcast: Texas Standard » Stories from Texas
Episode: The Texas Rancher and the New York Banker
Description: This story comes under the heading of “folklore,” a story that rises up out of the people and migrates and mutates. There is a New York version, a Jewish version, an Italian version, a Southern version and a Texas version, where I believe it originated, but that is likely because I am a Texan. It goes like this:
A Texas rancher walks into a bank in New York City and asks for a $5000 loan for the period of a month.
The banker hesitates. He is uncertain about it because he thinks the Texan looks a bit...