Photos: Baxter Black, cowboy poet and humorist, dies at age 77
Baxter Black
Baxter Black sits on his back patio in 2007, where he says he usually ends up in the evenings watching the sunset. Black, a cowboy poet and humorist, died on June 10 at his home in Benson at age 77.
Baxter Black
Baxter Black lays across his counter top in 2007. Black, a cowboy poet and humorist, died on June 10 at his home in Benson at age 77.
Baxter Black
Baxter Black was named the Grand Marshall for the Tucson Fiesta De Los Vaqueros rodeo parade in 2005. About the rodeo he says: "I got to be the Grand Marshall, and as LBJ would say, “They’re treatin’ me like a Kennedy.”
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A fan has her photo taken with author Baxter Black at a autograph booth at The Tucson Festival of Books in 2010 at the University of Arizona.
Baxter Black
Celebrated cowboy poet, philosopher, radio and television commentator Baxter Black chats with Alejandro Gonzalez while getting his boots polished during regular daily activities at Tucson International Airport in 2015.
Baxter Black
Baxter Black, top, cowboy poet and grand marshall of the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo parade, stands on a carriage while riding during the parade for the 103rd annual event through the financial district of downtown Denver on Jan. 13, 2009. The annual parade kicks off the National Western, which is one of the largest livestock exhibitions and rodeos staged in North America.
Baxter Black
Baxter Black performs at the 2010 Stagecoach Music Festival at the Empire Polo Club on April 24, 2010 in Indio, California.
Mamta Popat
Photojournalist
World famous cowboy poet and Benson resident Baxter Black has died at age 77.