They marched to a barren strip of land along the Old Spanish Trail in their business suits and cowboy hats, their single-action revolvers aimed toward the ground, cocked and ready to fire.
Before Houston became a destination sports town in the 1960s, there were swaths of vacant coastal prairie land owned by the Hilton Hotel Corporation. With few buildings around, one could just make out the wooden derricks over at the Pierce Junction oil field. White-tailed deer and coyotes roamed the place alongside vicious mosquitoes.
