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Pickens named one major discovery, a 1975 North Sea strike, after his new wife, Beatrice. The daughter of a rancher and the mother of four children by a previous marriage, she and Pickens first met as college students in Oklahoma. She married one of Pickens' fraternity brothers, but they divorced in 1969. Pickens describes his life with Beatrice as "the perfect deal." She is almost as sure a shot as Pickens (an award-winning marksman), with whom she likes to hunt quail. A skilled horsewoman, she is also deeply interested in her husband's work. The year they were married...
Alerted by a rancher who spotted the smoke of a campfire, France, alone and on foot, picked up their trail last week. He followed their tracks through snow and across rocky terrain for four miles. Rifle in hand, he slipped quietly toward their campsite, then strode almost casually into the opening. "Seen any coyotes around?" he asked. The father jumped up and reached for his rifle. "Please don't make me kill you!" warned the sheriff. France promised the thinly dressed but well-armed fugitives "a warm bed and warm food and warm water," then marched them into...
...Later a rancher asks Madison where the elk hunting is good and what is the condition of the herd. Madison is polite with him, but he tells a visitor that he suspects the man allowed hunters-illegally-to kill two deer on his land during the season last year. "We didn't have enough evidence to make a case, but we're watching him real close this season...
More interesting TV pictures may originate outside the hall. To re-create a bit of the Old West for out-of-towners, Local Rancher John Ball plans to hold a cattle drive along the Trinity River, ending up less than a mile from downtown every morning of the convention. Some 150 longhorns and about a dozen cowboys will take part in the four-mile outings...
...gambling wheel at the Elks' club to raise her son Kurt and to keep the fallow farm where her widowed mother bitterly awaits death. Part II is Kurt's account of Mother Marge's struggles, her drinking and her unhousebroken boyfriends, including a Sioux sheep rancher. The novel concludes with a hint of contrivance as the title, Leaving the Land, takes on a resonant double meaning: the inevitability of departures and the promise of continuity...