DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - With a slow, sturdy Southern drawl, Big Tex has uttered his final "Howdy Folks" in this, his 66th year as the official State Fair of Texas icon. After welcoming more than 2 ...

Big Tex is 52 feet tall and sports a belt 23 feet long. Visitors love to be photographed in front of him. October 2002. Terry Scott Bertling/San Antonio Express-News.

Big Tex, the 52-foot talking cowboy that has welcomed visitors to the Texas State Fair for 60 years, ... Only Big Tex's hands, Dickies belt buckle and skeletal structure were left of the iconic ...

Big Tex's 75-gallon hat, 50-pound belt buckle and slow drawl -- "Howdy, folks!" -- have been greeting fair visitors since 1952. This year's fair, which closes Sunday, had been celebrating Big Tex ...

Big Tex represents a clean, whitewashed ideal that directs your attention into the glimmering fair and away from the impoverished neighborhood outside. Big Tex burns at the State Fair of Texas on ...

Big Tex's 75-gallon hat, 50-pound belt buckle and slow drawl have been greeting state fair visitors with "Howdy folks!" since 1952. This year's fair, which closes Sunday, ...

On the unusually hot September morning, crews worked to get Big Tex and everything else ready for the State Fair of Texas, which opens Friday, Sept. 27, 2024.

Big Tex's 75-gallon hat, 50-pound belt buckle and slow drawl -- "Howdy, folks!" -- have been greeting fair visitors since 1952. This year's fair, which closes Sunday, had been celebrating Big Tex ...

The man who provides the voice for Big Tex, the giant cowboy at the State Fair of Texas, was greeting people with his usual "Howdy, folks!" in a slow drawl Friday when someone rushed into his tr ...

HOUSTON - On Friday, May 7, a 20-foot replica of one of Texas’s most famous citizens traveled to Discovery Green to announce the Texas Department of Transportation’s ninth annual Click It or ...

Big Tex is 55 feet tall and has been greeting fairgoers for 72 years. "It's wild to think we've made it through our 24 day run," says the State Fair of Texas' Karissa Condoianis.

Big Tex's 75-gallon hat, 50-pound belt buckle and slow drawl -- "Howdy, folks!" -- have been greeting fair visitors since 1952. This year's fair, which closes Sunday, had been celebrating Big Tex ...