Baxter Black, a onetime veterinarian who turned to storytelling as a columnist, novelist, NPR commentator, traveling bard of the West and America’s foremost cowboy poet, died June 10 at his ...

Black proclaims himself the "greatest cowboy poet in the known universe," and has written a new book, Horseshoes, Cowsocks, and Duckfeet: More Commentary by NPR's Cowboy Poet & Former Large Animal ...

BENSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Baxter Black has passed away while in hospice care at the age of 77. Farm Journal confirms the cowboy poet, storyteller and philosopher died Friday. Earlier this year ...

By Clay Risen Baxter Black, the country’s best-known cowboy poet, whose witty, big-hearted verse about cowpokes, feed lots and wide-open vistas elevated the tradition of Western doggerel to ...

Editor's note: Cowboy poet Baxter Black, a longtime columnist whose weekly edition of On the Edge of Common Sense ran regularly in the Amarillo Globe-News over the years before his retirement ...