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= Jack County Road Runner =

Through the early nineteen seventies until about the mid nineteen eighties there existed an (almost mythical) male individual who occasionally hitchhiked the roads randomly in Young, Jack, Archer, Clay, Palo Pinto, Wichita, and possibly other north central Texas counties. Upon stopping and offering him a ride, he would size up the person (driver) and if he deemed it appropriate, would offer a hit or hits of LSD 25. The LSD offered was of his own manufacture and was considered by those who knew of it to be some of the best available outside of the products created by A. Owsley Stanley (from California). There is no known reference or photograph for this individual except for a vague description (5'6"ish, thinning dark shoulder length hair, white male, usually attired in jeans with a belt and a button shirt with sneakers, animated, pleasant disposition). There are not many corroborated stories concerning him as finding him or giving him a ride was a rare occurrence and it was even rarer to hear him mentioned outside certain local klatches. There was speculation by several of his gift recipients that he was a long time p-chemist from the local state university in Wichita County (Midwestern State University), though this was never proven or acknowledged.

This article is to see if there are others who have more to his story, or who can dispel the myth.

I came to realize that once a small group of people grow old and pass away that the "myth"/stories of the Jack County Road Runner will be lost, and feel this is a bit of Americana that should reside somewhere besides long passed memories.