Jack Woodville London, a retired lawyer from the Texas Panhandle, had just finished writing the manuscript of a novel and needed a break. He invited a couple friends, John Knox and Keith Kisner, to get coffee. During my own meeting at an Austin coffee shop with London—a tall, thin, bespectacled man with long white hair—he tells me that Knox is “an autodidact Texas historian” who loves flags and participates in an annual reenactment of the fall of the Alamo on March 6 (he dresses as a Mexican soldier). So, it wasn’t a complete surprise when London’s eccentric buddy proposed a road trip along the boundaries of Texas, driving first to El Paso from Austin, where the three friends live, and then tracing the state from…
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