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Life is Simple
Life is Simple
The Midwest Cattleman · August 11, 2022 · P5

Copyright 2022, icon status as a cowboy poet, had the unique pleasure of been serving on a state-wide
Jerry Crownover
newspaper and magazine col- meeting Baxter Black, and committee, with the Young
umnist, TV personality, story spending an entire afternoon Farmers Association, helping
teller extraordinaire, country with him, one-on-one. It was to plan and conduct their an-
philosopher, entertainer, and one of the most memorable nual national convention. It
all-around funny man. Even as afternoons of my life, and I was early December, and the
he achieved unparalleled suc- learned so much from the gen- convention was underway,
cess, in all of these matters, it tleman, who was just as per- with hundreds of young farm-
always seemed as if he would sonable and down-to-earth, as ers in attendance, from all
be more comfortable atop a he had been portrayed, through over the United States. That
good horse, somewhere out his writings and appearances. morning, the chairman of the
west. I was still teaching at the event asked me if I could find
Twenty-eight years ago, I university in 1994, and had continued on page 18

Rural America lost a true
champion of our lifestyle, with
the recent passing of Dr. Bax-
ter Black. Those of us, who live
in flyover country, probably ha-
ven’t had anyone of notoriety,
who could express our values
and common sense, with as
much passion, humor and elo-
quence, as Baxter did, since the
late, great Will Rogers.
Baxter Black was a man
who studied to be, and be-
came, a large animal veteri-
narian, long before he achieved

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