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THEON - If not for a bottle of kerosene, the quite little community of Theon in Williamson Coun ty might have been become the property of a group of Texas writers and artists known collectively if unofficially as the 'Mad Dogs.' The nucleus of the group consisted of writers Bud Shrake, Gary Cartwright, Dan Jenkins, Pete Gent and Larry L. King along with actor Dennis Hopper and singer/ songwriter Jerry Jeff Walker.

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