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Apr 19, 2021
Apr 19, 2021 Updated Jan 11, 2022

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Baxter Black

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Baxter Black

“Where were you born?” The reporter asked one of my Colorado cowboy friends.

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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.