My job as a network feature reporter is unique in that I get to choose most of my stories while other correspondents are assigned topics, usually ripped from the pages of newspapers and magazines. I owe my freedom to Steve Friedman, executive producer of the Today show at the time of my hiring back in 1980. Steve liked to shake things up and wasn’t afraid of taking chances. He took a chance on me, a newcomer to TV work at the age of thirty, then gave me enough rope to either hang myself or swing free of the normal story confines. Somehow I managed to clear the barriers and have happily wandered outside the borders ever since. And that’s where you find them - life’s great characters - way out there on the fringes. One such character looms above all others. Tex Cobb. If you Google Tex you’ll find the background details of his life; the movies he’s been in, the people he’s fought but words and photos can’t adequately describe what it’s like to be in Cobbworld. I was there, almost fifteen years ago, and lived to tell the tale.

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