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A road named for the 鈥淲ill Rogers of the Pecos鈥� has also come to honor oilfield workers through a tradition where people hang their boots atop fence posts once they are ready to move on from the area.

鈥淭hose are from people all over the country that go out there chasing a paycheck,鈥� Chris Cain, a general superintendent project manager in the oil and gas industry, said. 鈥淭hey go out there and they just work and work until they can鈥檛 take it anymore, and then they leave. That鈥檚 (them) saying, 鈥業鈥檓 never coming back.鈥欌��

The boots are located along a few miles of Buck Jackson Road, which sits over 30 miles west of Jal, near New Mexico 128, deep in the heart of the Permian Basin. The road stretches for miles and miles until it reaches the Texas line.

Unlike many of the people Cain has worked with over the years, he still comes back to work in the area.

To see those boots, he said, 鈥渋s pretty humbling, like it knocks you down because you鈥檙e in the same place those guys were in.鈥�

While the highway is full of boots, semis, pickups and pumpjacks, it is not named for an oilfield worker. Instead, it pays homage to a former sheriff, rodeo announcer and rancher who owned land in West Texas and New Mexico.

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Buster Emmet 鈥淏uck鈥� Jackson was born on June 29, 1908, in Azle, Texas. 

Jackson, who grew up near the Fort Worth Stockyards and old Fort Worth Coliseum, 鈥渨anted to be a cowboy from an early age,鈥� according to his obituary published on Oct. 12, 1993, in the Odessa American.

In 1925, Jackson came to Pecos, Texas, and got his first job as a cowboy on the H.T. Collier Ranch. Three years later, he started announcing the West of the Pecos Rodeo with a megaphone while riding his horse around the arena. 

He would swallow so much dirt while announcing that his stomach would be sore for about a week after the event,.

The West of the Pecos Museum in Pecos said as a rodeo announcer Jackson had the 鈥済ift of gab鈥� and 鈥渂rought the rodeo vividly to life.鈥�

A story published in the Feb. 9, 1969, edition of the Odessa American referred to Jackson as the 鈥淲ill Rogers of the Pecos.鈥�

鈥淗e has gained fame with his voice and unique ability to tell a humorous story at a moment鈥檚 notice,鈥� the newspaper reported.

Over the years, Jackson also worked at the Prewitt, Fishtail, Slash and Cooksey ranches. He served in World War II and was a Reeves County (Texas) commissioner and sheriff before buying the Kyle Ranch in Loving County, and later the Ross Ranch in Eddy and Lea counties in New Mexico, Jameson Lucas, City of Carlsbad historian, said.

As a rancher, Jackson showed plenty of grit, especially during what some people refer to as the 鈥淔ilthy Fifties,鈥� a seven-year drought across Texas in the mid-20th century., in 1953, the Trans-Pecos region only received 8 inches of rain 鈥渁nd the drought grew worse from 1954-1956.鈥�

In 1957, he won the title of 鈥淒riest Rancher in North and South America鈥� in a contest sponsored by the Madisonville Sidewalk Cattleman鈥檚 Association. The organization鈥檚 criteria was to pick the man who had 鈥渟tuck with his land and what cattle he could keep through the seven long years of the worst drought in Texas history,鈥� according to the May 30, 1957, edition of the Bryan-College Station Eagle. 

鈥淚t is so dry now on my ranch that the coyotes are carrying canteens,鈥� Jackson said in the story.

Aside from being tough and witty, he was personable.

Dorinda Millan, executive director of the West of the Pecos Museum, said she was in her 20s when she met Jackson, whom she described as 鈥渧ery gentlemanly.鈥� 

鈥淗e would always take his hat off when he would greet the ladies,鈥� she said. 鈥淎nd if he didn鈥檛 know you, he would introduce himself. He would tell me and everyone how he would announce the rodeo with a megaphone and days after his belly would hurt because of all the dust he inhaled. He was very much our local celebrity and very much loved and respected.鈥�

Jackson died on Oct. 10, 1993. He was 85.

Pecos, which , named an arena in his honor.

About 65 miles north, just off Buck Jackson Road, Gerry Head, an Odessa, Texas-based truck driver, stood outside his rig and looked at the fence posts topped by boots. He thought about his wife, who is battling cancer.

Head, who has worked in the oil industry for over 25 years, contemplated his future and the boots.

鈥淚f I had to go home,鈥� he said, 鈥渋t鈥檚 a thought.鈥�

Gregory R.C. Hasman is a general assignment reporter and the Road Warrior. He can be reached at ghasman@abqjournal.com or 505-823-3820. 

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