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I met Ollie Reed Jr. in 1978, when we were crisscrossing the state covering Bruce King and Joe Skeen in a colorful New Mexico governor’s race, Ollie for the Albuquerque Tribune and I for the Santa Fe New Mexican. The fall dust-up between the two big New Mexico ranchers was made for us. They drawled as heavily …

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March 17, 2017

I dreamed of barbecue in 1978, not because I craved it but because I often ate it three meals a day. It was a governor election year in New Mexico and there was a heavy-duty contest between two native-born ranchers, Bruce King and Joe Skeen. Both men were big, burly New Mexicans with hands like …