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Baxter Black: Pleasure Horse

Baxter Black
Dec 28, 2020
Dec 28, 2020 Updated Jan 11, 2022

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I consider myself among other things, a former horse mechanic. The horses I did veterinary work on were ranch and feedlot beasts of burden. Workin' animals from man's point of view.

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Baxter Black is a cowboy poet, ex-veterinarian and sorry team roper, who now lives in Arizona and travels the country,

tormenting cowboys instead of cows.