RIP Baxter Black, DVM

  • BAND FOR 4TH The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, a band from Lubbock specializing in classic country and red dirt country music will be the featured entertainment at the 26th Annual Roaring Springs 4th of July Celebration. | COURTESY PHOTO
    BAND FOR 4TH The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, a band from Lubbock specializing in classic country and red dirt country music will be the featured entertainment at the 26th Annual Roaring Springs 4th of July Celebration. | COURTESY PHOTO
  • RIP Baxter Black, DVM
    RIP Baxter Black, DVM

    Baxter Black, the veterinarian turned cowboy poet, storyteller and philosopher of rural life in America, died Friday, June 10, at the age of 77.

    In January of this year a Facebook posting by his wife, Cindy Lou, revealed Baxter was suffering from blood leukemia and a form of dementia. He had been in hospice care at his home in Benson, Ariz.

    Until then, Black’s columns regularly appeared in the pages…