It's interesting to note that none of the boys named here have Czech surnames. West is a town where Czech immigrants began arriving in the 1880s; there were many Czech-owned businesses by the 1890s. The town is most recently famous for the ammonium nitrate fertilizer storage facility explosion on April 17, 2013, but it's mainly known to travelers along Interstate 35 for kolaches, and places that sell them, like the "Czech Stop".

I spent a little time working in a cotton mill in my youth, earning money for college. I remember the horrible lint that got all over you in certain parts of the mill. You can tell from this photo why mill workers were nicknamed "lintheads".