Maybe you saw a gray wolf in Texas, though I'll remain skeptical until someone provides photo evidence, but there is absolutely nothing that indicates there is an established breeding population there. Red wolves are nearly extinct, with only an estimated few dozen left in the wild (mostly on...
There are no wolves in NY. The coyotes however tend to be bigger in the northeast due to the supposed breeding with wolves in Central Canada, hence why some people refer to them as "coywolves."