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Gab and grub at Texas’ stockyard cafés

September 18, 2017 | By Matt Joyce

When sitting in a stockyard café, surrounded by weathered cattlemen in sweat-stained Stetsons and busy waitresses balancing plates of chicken-fried steak and pots of hot coffee, it’s worth opening your ears to absorb a few local tales.

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