 Miner Keith had grown up in Brooklyn, New York, and he had become a cattle rancher in Texas. You know, it's a very common motif in America for sort of patrician or urban types to sort of become cowboys. This is writer Dan Kopel. I sometimes pretentiously like to call myself a thing biographer. I write about the histories of objects, and I'm best known for writing a book called Banana, the Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World.