T. Boone Pickens, larger-than-life energy tycoon and OSU diehard, dies at 91 [View all]
Source: Dallas Morning News
T. Boone Pickens, legendary energy executive, philanthropist, ardent Oklahoma State University supporter and one of America's most famous entrepreneurs, died peacefully Wednesday of natural causes at his home in the Vendome. He was 91.
Pickens had an energy career that went from laborer to corporate take-over raider to tycoon to business soothsayer. He was among the few business elites granted "dual citizenship" on both sides of the Red River.
L.A. movie producers would have been hard-pressed to create an exaggerated Hollywood version of the real-life man.
"Ralph Waldo Emerson said, 'Do not go where the path might lead, but instead go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.' That was Boone," said retired banker Alan White, one of Pickens' closest friends. "Boone was always going some place where there was no path. He left trails all of his life. Many of us had the good fortune of being able to follow along with him."
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