I follow Heather Myles down the redcarpeted hallway of the Trucountry Inn in Brady, heading to the Bonnie and Clyde room. It’s a Saturday night, a party is in full swing in the downstairs ballroom, and the hotel is fully booked. Brady, known as “The Heart of Texas” due to its proximity to the geographic center of the state, is about an hour’s drive from the tiny community of Rowena where Bonnie Parker was born in 1910.
Myles, a honky-tonk singer and proprietor of the Trucountry Inn, designed each room of this 1923 hotel with its own theme. She points out the original carved wooden doors and windows. Over the past seven years, she’s painstakingly restored the hotel’s interior—replumbed it, rewired it,
