Horseshoes, Cowsocks & Duckfeet by Baxter Black

Horseshoes, Cowsocks & Duckfeet by Baxter Black

Baxter Black, the world's bestselling cowboy poet, author of Cactus Tracks & Cowboy Philosophy, and public radio's favorite former large animal veterinarian, is back in the saddle with a hilarious new roundup of essays, commentaries, and campfire verse that speaks to the cowboy soul in each of us.

Drawn in part from Baxter's wildly popular NPR commentaries and syndicated columns, Horseshoes, Cowsocks & Duckfeet offers a generous helping of his tender yet irreverent, sage-as-sagebrush take on everything from ranching, roping, Wrangler jeans, and rodeos to weddings and romance, the love of a good dog, dancing, parenting, cooking up trouble, and talking about the weather. If you haven't ridden with Baxter before, find out what more than a million dedicated fans are laughing about inside and outside the corral.

Baxter Black, a cowboy poet and large-animal veterinarian, claims, I was raised with the coyotes. No, this is a serious situation. I grew up in New Mexico and attended New Mexico State University in Las Cruces for three years before continuing on to Colorado State University for four years to obtain my Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree. I struggled in veterinary school. (The price of a gallon of petrol was higher than my GPA!) During the summers of my undergraduate years, I worked as 'cowboy labor' at several cattle businesses. I also had a band and rode bulls to help support myself.

I worked in the livestock business for thirteen years after graduation and would still be doing so if cowboy poetry hadn't taken over my life. Because poetry is almost illegal in the United States, I've had to work on the fringes of the mainstream to make a living - outside the box, as it were. For the past thirty years, I've been performing cowboy poetry (imagine Shakespeare rather than Robert Frost) in venues all around the United States and Canada. The best thing about my job is that I've never had to beg appearances. It's all been word of mouth. To supplement my performances, I've dabbled in best-selling books, CD and DVD publishing, a regular column, a commercial radio show, National Public Radio appearances, cable television, and commercial production. My wife and I started our entertainment business in Colorado.

We relocated to Arizona twelve years ago to care for my parents. I'm still on the road a lot, and we have five people working in our office. We have a teenage son and a married daughter. While I'm not on the road, I punch cows on our little ranch near the Mexican border.

It's not a awful existence.

SKU	Nicht verfügbar
ISBN 13	9781400049431
ISBN 10	1400049431
Titel	Horseshoes, Cowsocks & Duckfeet
Autor	Baxter Black
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Three Rivers Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2003-08-26
Seitenanzahl	288
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.