One day in November, 1919, a man named J. Frank Norfleet walked into the lobby of the St. George Hotel in Dallas. A rancher from the Texas Panhandle, Norfleet came to the city to sell some of his land and buy a bigger spread from a neighbor. At the St. George, Norfleet began chatting with a man named Miller, a mule buyer also in town for business, and soon the two were talking deals, with Norfleet confiding his plans to sell land. What a coincidence! Miller had a friend who might be interested in buying it. On cue, his aforementioned friend, the well-tailored Charles Harris, sauntered into the building.
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