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Coup de Grace

By Baxter Black

Published June 10, 2003 at 12:00 AM EDT

Commentator and cowboy poet Baxter Black has a poem on the struggle between a cowboy and a horse.

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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