Go ask Dallas : Now where exactly is Sam Merlotte from in Texas ?

Well, as with many things we have the True Blood version and the Sookie book version.

In the series, you'll remember Sam tells Andy a story about how he was raised by naturists in a nudist colony outside Beaumont, Texas . ( Beaumont is near the Texas Gulf coast located between Houston and Lake Charles , Louisiana)but we later see a glimpse of Sam's real childhood in a very sad flashback where his adopted family abandons him as a child.

In Book 8, Dead to Worse we get Sam's story- see below. We also know that Book 9, Dead and Gone Chapter one opens with a very dramatic event happening in Sam's family. ( if you haven't read Book 9 chapter one yet, go here )

Charlaine sets Sam's hometown as Wright, Texas and sets Wright outside Ft. Worth.
There is not now a Wright, Texas outside Ft. Worth but there once was a community of Wright and it's now part of Weatherford. So maybe-- Sam's town of Wright might have be somewhere nearby ... ;0)
“Where’d you grow up?”
“At least partly in Wright, Texas,” he said. “Outside of Fort Worth. Way outside of Fort Worth. It wasn’t any bigger than Bon Temps. We moved around all during my childhood, though, because my dad was in the service himself. He got out when I was about fourteen, and my mom’s family was in Wright, so that’s where we went.”
“Was it hard settling down after moving so much?” I’d never lived anywhere but Bon Temps.

“It was great,” he said. “I was so ready to stay in one place. I hadn’t realized how hard it would be to find my own niche in a group of kids who’d grown up together, but I was able to take care of myself. I played baseball and basketball, so I found my place. Then I joined the army. Go figure.”
I was fascinated. “Are your mom and dad still in Wright?” I asked. “It must have been hard for him in the military, with him being a shifter.” Since Sam was a shapeshifter, I knew without him having to tell me that he was the first-born child of pure-blooded shapeshifters....“
“And your mom?”
“She’s still in Wright. She married again about two years after Dad died. He’s a good enough guy. He’s regular.” Not a shifter or any kind of supernatural. “So there’s a limit to how close I can get to him,” Sam said.
“Your mom’s a full-blood. Surely he suspects.”
“He’s willfully blind, I think. She has to go out for her evening run, she says, or she’s spending the night with her sister in Waco, or she’s driving over to visit me, or some other excuse.”
“Must be hard to maintain.”
“I would never try to do that. I almost married a regular girl once, while I was in the service. But I just couldn’t marry someone and keep that big a secret. It saves my sanity, having someone to talk to about it, Sookie.” He smiled at me, and I appreciated the trust he was showing. “If the Weres announce, then we’ll all go public. It’ll be a great burden off me.”

Sam and Andy



Sam's flashback