Marathon Man

By Jeremy Ray Burchard

J.P. Bryan, the man responsible for transforming Marathon, Texas into a popular tourist desitination, has spent a lifetime serving his interest over self-interest.

Just short of a mile from the Alamo’s front doors stands an equally proud, majestic structure — whose walls tell not the story of folk…

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