CACTUS TO THE CORE
“Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway,” John Wayne said. Whether there’s any record of Cactus co-founder Mike Piland being “scared to death” is questionable, but “saddling up anyway” has pretty much been a fact for much of his remarkable life.
“My dad passed away when I was 18 and he left me with this cotton gin,” explained Piland, who was born in 1945. He lived in
