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ON THE EDGE OF COMMON SENSE – By Baxter BlackMule ConversionMule Conversion
Western Horseman
| January 2004
| Baxter Black
Posted on 01/10/2004 1:15:22 PM PST by Cuttnhorse
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Bax always has it right
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To: Cuttnhorse
"Bax always has it right"
Yes he does. If you have a BB ping list, please add me to it.
Best regards, IA
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posted on
01/10/2004 1:22:45 PM PST
by
international american
(support our troops.........revoke Hillary's visa!!)
To: international american
Thanks,
I don't have a formal list but will keep you in mind when I go to the effort of copying him from Western Horseman.
Have you ever seen him in person??
To: international american
I've seen Bax a bunch of times; my wife used to work for a veterinarian who went to vet school with Bax and Bax came to our small Idaho town for a Fouth of July party.
He is one fine person, about as nice and pleasant a person as you could hope for. I've seen him perform a bunch of times in Elko, Nevada, at Cowboy Poetry. He'll play guitar and drink whiskey and talk to his many fans 'till 3 in the morning. He really is a great guy.
To: Cuttnhorse
I've always enjoyed his views. My cousin is a BIG fan. He'll like knowing that he's a great guy, too.
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posted on
01/10/2004 1:33:02 PM PST
by
FourPeas
To: Cuttnhorse
No, I have never met him. My dad, who grew up on a horse ranch in Colorado turned me onto him many years ago. He was a regular contributor to Fencepost magazine. There was an A&E special on him in the mid 1990's. I taped it. Will look for it today.
Best regards, IA
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posted on
01/10/2004 1:33:48 PM PST
by
international american
(support our troops.........revoke Hillary's visa!!)
To: FourPeas
Baxter Black can shoe a horse, string a bob wire fence and bang out a Bob Wills classic on his flat-top guitar. Cowboy poet, ex-veterinarian and sorry team roper, he has more hair around his lip than on his head. Raised in New Mexico, he spent his workin' life in the mountain west tormenting cows. Now Baxter lives in Arizona and travels the country tormenting cowboys.
Since 1982, Baxter Black has been rhyming his way into the national spotlight, and now stands as the best selling cowboy poet in the known universe. Hes written many books (including a rodeo novel), recorded over a dozen audio and video tapes, and achieved notoriety as a syndicated columnist and radio commentator. From the Tonight Show and PBS to NPR and the NFR, Baxters wacko verse has been seen and heard by millions. His works are prominently displayed in both big city libraries and small town feed stores.
Yet Black, who still doesn't own a television, fax machine or cellular phone, hasn't changed a thing about his subject matter or his delivery. He continues to focus on the day-to-day ups and downs of everyday people who live with livestock and work the land. Driven by a left-handed sense of humor, Black evokes laughter just by being there. Baxters philosophy is simple enough - in spite of all the computerized, digitized, high-tech innovations now available to mankind, there will always be a need for someone who can think up stuff.
"He could make a dead man sit up and laugh" - Washington Post
To: Cuttnhorse
Uh-uh. Mules are too smart.
As William Faulkner said, a mule will work for you 20 years for a chance to kick you once.
I'll stick to the ponies. They're nicer.
Here's my good-hearted Tbred mare doing her thing in the hunting field last weekend. I wouldn't trade her for a span of sorrel mules!
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posted on
01/10/2004 1:39:39 PM PST
by
AnAmericanMother
(. . . sed, ut scis, quis homines huiusmodi intellegere potest?. . .)
To: international american
The wife and I used to go to Cowboy Poetry in Elko every year. A favorite late night watering hole and gathering place is the second floor of the Stockman's where all the performers and musicians gather to pick and grin. You can see everyone there, and Bax will play guitar, drink whiskey and BS with anyone who has the time.
He is a treasure and I admire him immensly.
To: AnAmericanMother
"As William Faulkner said, a mule will work for you 20 years for a chance to kick you once."
ROTF!!
My favorite Faulkner line is as follows.
When asked why he rarely answered or even opened his mail, Faulkner said: " I will not be at the beck and call of every SOB who has 3 cents for a postage stamp" :)
To: Cuttnhorse
LOL! I needed a good laugh today! I get to see him once in a great while on the Rural Channel on Dish Network. He's a great guy and right on the money most of the time.
To: international american
"The past is not dead; it is not even past."
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posted on
01/10/2004 1:44:52 PM PST
by
AnAmericanMother
(. . . sed, ut scis, quis homines huiusmodi intellegere potest?. . .)
To: AnAmericanMother
What a pretty girl.
I've never spent much time around mules, but have seen some that are amazing...can do cutting, reining, jumping, just about anything. I've always figured it takes the right personality to get along with mules...I think if you are suspicious of them, better not fool with 'em. They are smarter than horses in a lot of ways.
I've got some mule owner friends who you couldn't give a good horse to.
To: Cuttnhorse
Thanks for the photo. I am moving to Summerlin, NV in March
Where is Elko from there?
To: AnAmericanMother
:)
To: EagleMamaMT
When we go home to the US in the summer, we are glued to the Rural Channel. We're now living in Chile and sure miss home...every day. We have a small ranch in Idaho and as soon as we own it, will return home and be broke like all our neighbors and friends.
To: international american
I spent 20-years wandering around Nevada and have never heard of Summerlin. Where is it??
To: Cuttnhorse
Summerlin, or at least where my house will be, is 14 miles up Sahara Bl. on the hillside from downtown Lost Wages.
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