This. I lived in Clovis NM which is near the Texas boarder back in the '70s. Tires weren't as good at flat protection back then. I used a product called "sticker flickers" or "tire savers". There's some on EBay now. The idea was to pull out the goat head or shard of glass before it had time to push into the tire with each revolution.

Pair 2 Bicycle Research Tire Savers Tubular Road Touring Randonneur NIP Tyre | eBay

I'd highly recommend using something like a Gatorskin tires; maybe using Slime; and/or tire liners.