The bestselling novel from America s premier cowboy poet.
Cowboys Lick and Cody are on a quest to qualify for the rodeo national finals and their widely entertaining, often hilarious adventure includes a smattering of sex, violence, intrigue, and the occasional philosophical rumination. These modern-day cowpokes two chivalrous knights of the rope and range with a hankering for bucking broncos and for the female of the two-legged species find much more than they bargained for in Oklahoma City. Against the colorful, flamboyant backdrop of the hard-ridin, hard-playin rodeo circuit, they...

Baxter Black, the world s bestselling cowboy poet, author of Cactus Tracks & Cowboy Philosophy, and public radio s favorite former large animal veterinarian, is back in the saddle with a hilarious new roundup of essays, commentaries, and campfire verse that speaks to the cowboy soul in each of us.
Drawn in part from Baxter s wildly popular NPR commentaries and syndicated columns, Horseshoes, Cowsocks & Duckfeet offers a generous helping of his tender yet irreverent, sage-as-sagebrush take on everything from ranching, roping, Wrangler jeans, and rodeos to weddings and...

The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering is the granddaddy of all cowboy poetry events, proclaimed by the US Senate in 2000 in recognition of its pioneering role in the preservation and revitalization of this important American tradition. In conjunction with the 30th anniversary of the event, this commemorative volume collects 100 poems by various cowboy poets who have appeared at the gathering over the last three decades, from Baxter Black and Wallace McRae to Georgie Sicking and Paul Zarzyski. Representing the best contemporary cowboy poetry from the first gathering to the present, the poets...