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Baxter Black: Cowboy cartoonists

Baxter Black
Feb 25, 2019
Feb 25, 2019

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I n my life there are people with talents I admire: horse trainers, good ropers, cattle traders, backyard mechanics, welders, guitar players, AI technicians, farriers, purebred breeders and rough stock riders, for instance.

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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.