Horseshoes, Cowsocks & Duckfeet
More Commentary by NPR's Cowboy Poet & Former Large Animal Veterinarian
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3.7 • 7 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The world’s bestselling cowboy poet and author of Cactus Tracks & Cowboy Philosophy is back in the saddle with a hilarious roundup of essays, commentaries, and campfire verse that speaks to the cowboy soul in each of us.
“Baxter Black is Mark Twain served up with a little Groucho Marx.”—The Weekly Standard
Share in the wit and wisdom of Baxter Black, public radio’s favorite former large animal veterinarian. Drawn in part from Baxter’s wildly popular NPR commentaries and syndicated columns, Horseshoes, Cowsocks & Duckfeet offers a generous helping of Baxter’s tender yet irreverent, sage-as-sagebrush take on everything from ranching, roping, Wrangler jeans, and rodeos to weddings and romance, the love of a good dog, dancing, parenting, cooking up trouble, and talking about the weather.
With illustrations by noted cowboy artists Bob Black, Don Gill, Dave Holl, and Charlie Marsh and a timely foreword by historic cowboy sympathizer Herman Melville, Horseshoes, Cowsocks & Duckfeet will charm your chaps off.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Cowboy poet, humorist and songwriter Black (Cactus Tracks & Cowboy Philosophy)and cartoonists Black, Gill, Holl and Marsh return in a freshly stirred stewpot of Black's syndicated columns and NPR commentaries, with a seasoning of verses, curses, lists ("Fifty Ways to Fool Yer Banker"), toasts, quotes and random musings: "Do fish ever get tired of eating seafood?" Ex-veterinarian Black writes of many creatures cats, dogs, chickens, cows, butterflies, horses, sheep and whales. But he also covers a wide range of other subjects airplanes, dances, ranches, recipes, rodeos, romance, small towns and weddings: "Putting a suit coat on some of those cowboys was like puttin' croutons on a cow pie." Among the outstanding pieces are his controversial critique of the "bad artists" who made cave paintings; "Chicken House Attack," which features a steer running amok in a building with 25, 000 chickens; and "Dear Animal Planet," criticizing the cable channel for ignoring domestic livestock "destined for the food chain." With phrases like "March is the castor oil of months. The collected drippings of winter's oil change," it's evident that Black knows how to lasso the language, but for those who can't keep pace, he offers an extensive glossary of the "cowboy vocabulary." This is campfire humor that sparkles and ignites laughter. (On sale Sept. 3)
