In this interview, Connie and Baxter Black devote the majority of their discussion to talking about Baxter’s writing style, his life as a rancher, roper, and especially, as a cowboy poet and spend very little of their discussion to the specifics of the book, Hey, Cowboy, Wanna Get Lucky? In particular, Baxter talks about his writing style, thick writing as he terms it, which is a direct commentary from Baxter, the author, to the reader that often takes the form of a gentle explanation or a tirade. Connie and Baxter also talk his experiences ranching, roping, and being a veterinarian and their importance to his writing and life. Baxter and Connie spend a majority of the interview talking about his work as a cowboy poet and the relationship between humor and tragedy. Baxter also talks about the cowboy today and his place in American, arguing that cowboys are still out there but you have to leave your fast-food, quick-mart lined freeways to find them. Baxter ends their discussion talking about his philosophy on life, which he sums up in a quote from the Rev. Sidney Smith, a 19th century British theologian, as “do not assume because I am frivolous that I am shallow just as I do not presume that because you are grave that you are profound.”
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