Baxter Black: Cowboy wedding

Baxter Black
Jul 31, 2019
Jul 31, 2019

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When one of my cowboy friends tells me he’s getting married, my first question is “Does she have a job?”

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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.