The Last Sheriff in Texas. James P. McCollom

The voter scanned a sample ballot, counted according to instructions, and said: “I’ve got it.” He left immediately for his voting box.

      Hector Garcia had a dilemma. In Duval, the man’s vote would have been made for him. Bee County had a violent sheriff. But he had honor.

      “I hate to say it,” Elias Chapa would recall. “But he was honest.”

      If someone had tried to bribe him . . .

      “He woulda shot him.”