Baxter Black (190201)
Navy brat ‘n’ Brooklyn native, this cowboy poet was schooled in vet’rinary medicine at the New Mexico and Colorado State Universities. Before quittin’ medicine fer poetry ‘n’ shootin’ the breeze fer a livin‘, he specialized in typical cowboy critters — hosses ’n’ heffers ’n’ such like. Abidin’ in Arizona these days with his Cindy Lou, he still gets published reg’lar and speaks his mind now and then on the public radio. Doin’ without cell phone, TV, or fax, Bax says, “Ya either are [a cowboy] or ya aren’t.”
As of 220201 (today) he resides in Benson, Arizona, where he owns the “Coyote Cowboy Company,” a publishing company specializing in his own works.