The dead man was sprawled across the front seat of the late model white Cadillac with New Mexico plates in the gravel pit outside of Rocking Horse, Texas. A good portion of the back of his head was missing. Hollywood has yet to do justice to someone who has been shot in the face at close range. It is thoroughly disgusting. Your mind rebels from the sight. As part of my cross-country bicycle jaunt, I had just bicycled down from the breaks of the Canadian River, passing through Miami, Pampa, and White Deer. In White Deer, I stopped to look
