‘Booger Red - ugliest man living or dead’
“With fans screaming themselves hoarse, five foot four Booger Red would stick to the back of a bronc like a tick to a longhorn…he offered a $500 prize to anyone who could bring him a bronc he couldn’t ride. He never had to pay out.”
Memories of Christmas probably weren’t all that great for Samuel Thomas “Booger Red” Privett. It was a planned Christmas celebration that caused his face to be permanently disfigured and the loss of sight in one eye.
That Christmas, when he was 13, young Privett and one of his buddies thought it might be a good idea to put on a fireworks demonstration. They were filling a hollow tree stump with…
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