Commentary: Baxter Black

NPR | By Baxter Black

Published December 30, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST

Commentator Baxter Black offers his reflections on some of those who made news in 2002.

Baxter Black

Baxter Black can shoe a horse, string a barbed wire fence and bang out a Bob Wills classic on his flat top guitar. A cowboy poet and former large animal veterinarian, Baxter was raised in New Mexico and spent most of his workin' life in the mountain west tormenting cows. Black now lives in Arizona and travels the country tormenting cowboys.

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