T EXAS History Frank Buck, the celebrated adventurer who brought exotic wildlife “back alive,” took his last breath not in a faraway jungle but in a Houston hospital bed on Mar. 25, 1950.The Texan that grew up to be one of the most recognizable Americans of the 1930’s was born in 1884 in Gainesville and raised in Dallas. Fascinated by animals from an early age, he was once punished by his…
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