Texas sheriff Roy Boyd has the look of a legendary lawman—all whipcord and sinew, from the tip of his leather boots to the top of his sweat-stained cowboy hat.
It’s easy to imagine him riding a horse into an orange sunset among the purple shadows of century plants and the Trans-Pecos scorpions of West Texas, where people still pray for rain.
The get-’er-done Goliad County sheriff—a seventh-generation Texan with steely eyes, a square jaw, and an engraved Colt .45 on his hip—believes in God, America, and its borders.
Goliad County, home to about 7,100 souls, has more cows than people. It is known as the site of the 1836 Goliad massacre, which took place during the Texas Revolution. Some say the ghosts of war remain….