Baxter Black
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Baxter Black was born in Brooklyn Naval Hospital, NY in 1945 during WW II, he celebrates his birthday on the 2nd Friday of January every year. He grew up in Las Cruces, NM, where he competed as a bull rider throughout high school and university. Black went attended university in New Mexico State University and Colorado State University, graduated in 1969 with a veterinarian degree.
After being a vet for over a decade he found a new passion. He found his new calling when the last company he worked for as a tech veterinarian changed hands and let him go. At that time he was also "speaking" on the side and people kept contacting him. According to his Web site, Baxter, who lives in Arizona, doesn't own a television, fax machine, or cell phone. "In spite of all the computerized, digitized, high innovations now available to mankind,"(Baxter)
Baxter's first column was published in July 1980. Black's novel, Hey, Cowboy, Wanna Get Lucky?, shares with the author's nonfiction works a cast of rural eccentrics who are the object of fun as well as sympathy...