Given an opportunity to see new things and take in some pleasures forbidden in Texas — like, say, craps or blackjack — I accepted an invitation recently to visit the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.
The Choctaw Casino & Resort, a mere 120 miles from the site of Ripley Arnold’s U.S. Army fort, is not a Luke Short operation or any other relic of what once populated the Acre.
On this day, they would be, I was told, demonstrating their devotion to the fertile ground of North Texas, where there is plenty of water — that is, people — to sustain a thriving gaming operation for years to come…