[dropcap]L[/dropcap]ike everyone else, Texans are well capable of  whining and complaining, but the story doesn’t end there. Scratch that surface and there’s a dogged toughness in most people living here. Maybe it seeps up through the land; maybe it’s a contagious attitude carried along by frontier genes.     

Most frontier hardships are behind us as we move into urban life. Those that remain – blasting heat, thorny mesquites, a random rattlesnake on the front porch, l...