FREE: Croutons on a Cow Pie Volume II Baxter Black

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Very large and extremely heavy hardcover. This book is used and has a little dj wear and a few outside edge smudges. I combine shipping costs. Pay pal

This is volume two and follows his initial work that became the best selling book of all times in this particular genre. Black is a man who started writing poetry when he was in his thirties. He was a veterinarian and finally quite his profession and became a full time poet.
This oversized volume contains over 100 pieces of his work and includes 40 poems that have never been published before. Each poem is accompanied by a wonderful black and white ink drawing by Bob Black, Don Gill, David Holl and Charlie Marsh, four of the best western illustrators in the business. Each illustration covers an entire page and I will be truthful with you, even if you dropped Black's work from this volume, the art work alone would be worth owning the book.

Baxter Black uses as his subject the American Cowboy; not the movie cowboys that we see in the movies and on T.V., but rather the real thing...the working cowboy and all of his trials and tribulations. Most of the poems in this book have a funny side to them but Black has a subtle and dry sense of humor which is filled with wisdom and he has the ability, the eye and a very dry sense of humor which allows him to see through a brick wall and peer into the heart of a situation. Now these are fun poems; some profound, some witty, some nostalgic...but never underestimate this author. There is an element sophistication behind his work which he skillfully hides, but it is never-the-less lurking there.