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Article: Midland an 'idyllic place to grow up'; Early years: Residents recall the president's outgoing childhood
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- January 21, 2001
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MIDLAND, Texas - George W. Bush attended Andover and Yale, but
his early years were spent in Midland, in the heart of the Texas oil
patch, where he rode his bicycle, cheered at Friday night football
games and first met some of the friends who remain his closest
advisers.
With tumbleweeds rolling across the plains, Midland had a
"frontier feeling; it was hot and dry and dusty," the former Texas
governor recalls in his autobiography, "George W. Bush: A Charge to
Keep."
Midway between Fort Worth and El Paso, Midland now has about
100,000 residents. Its economy has diversified some since the oil
bust of the mid-1980s, but it is still the administrative center for
the petroleum-producing region ...