Tumbleweed Smith

Lewis was born in 1935, in Waco, Texas. He began broadcasting throughout Texas, and adopted the name Tumbleweed Smith in 1970.^[2] His radio show The Sound of Texas began broadcasting in 1969, and Lewis has amassed a collection of 14,000 interviews throughout his career, one of the largest private oral history collections in the United States.^[3][4]

Lewis regularly writes for The Gatesville Messenger from his home in Big Spring.^[5]

He was inducted into the Texas Trail of Fame in 2013.^[6][7]

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