Quote from "Boomtown Blues" by Alexandra Fuller:
"The house is furnished for people whose most important reference point is the land: rugged carpet, a couple of bottomed-out sofas, a utilitarian coffee table, and a woodstove....On the wall above the python's cage was a framed pencil drawing of Licking at eighteen, in his heyday as a bareback rider. Next to that were several professional photographs of bucking horses ridden by him as a young man, his spurs digging into the horse's flanks, his face hidden behind his cowboy hat, his hand in the air as if in a black-power salute."