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4 Friday 10.05.2012 Texas State Fair brings visitors, money to North Texas region 1 wVM * People watch the parade go by as Big Tex looms over the crowd at the State Fair on Thursday night at Fair Park. Big Tex is celebrating his 60th birthday this year. The 52-foot cowboy statue was originally purchased for $750. His I:
Scene: North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 100, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, October 5, 2012,
newspaper,
October 5, 2012;
Denton, Texas.
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth291772/m1/4/:
accessed May 7, 2024),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu;
crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.