Pansy was a beautiful trapeze artist who became a living legend in my West Texas hometown of McCamey, because she never left the grave of her husband. She and her husband were members of a ragtag circus troop in 1927 touring the new oilfields of the Permian Basin south of Odessa. She had the Mary Pickford look with golden curls and face made for movies. They were performing in a matinee when the rope on the trapeze broke. Her husband was killed instantly...