Archer City used to be the home of a lot of bookstores…or, rather, one bookstore that was housed in several buildings. The bookstores and their owner – Larry McMurtry – are gone, and the rest of the town seemed more faded than I remembered. And that includes the C on this sign which is more faded than the rest of the word.

Archer City is where McMurtry lived, and where he died, too, last March. In case you wondered.

Archer City, Texas
photographed 9.18.2021