The narration for "The Cowboy Astronomer" was recorded in the studio of the Coyote Cowboy Company, on Baxter's ranch in Brighton, Colorado.

For more information about Baxter Black, contact:

Coyote Cowboy Company
1063 South Big Bear
Post Office Box 2190
Benson, Arizona 85602 USA
+1 520 586 1077 Cowboy Standard Time zone
1-800-654-2550 toll-free

BAXTER BLACK is America's best-selling cowboy poet, the Poet Laureate of the Lariat. In addition to his many books, including his hardback, Croutons On A Cow Pie, Volume II, Baxter has catalogued his off-center cowboy poetry on at least six different cassette tapes and an Emmy-award-winning home video. With titles such as "#2 Hairball", "Range Fire", "Cowboy Standard Time", "Rudolph's Night Off", and "Why Do The Trees All Lean In Wyoming", Baxter's poems and stories spring from the wonderful world of cowboys and people of the land.

Baxter's talents have been enjoyed by millions -- at banquet and concert appearances; as a commentator on National Public Radio; a nationally syndicated columnist; and on network television as a regular guest on The Tonight Show. People magazine called him "an American original"; the Denver Post referred to him as "Will Rogers' weird grandson".

Raised near Las Cruces, New Mexico, Baxter grew up in and around the livestock business. He became a large-animal veterinarian, dispensing his medicine and practicing his humorous songs and poems on countless cowboys who worked with him on ranches and feedlots around the mountain West. Before long, Baxter was spending as much time entertaining as he was doctoring livestock. Choosing the cleaner of the two options, Baxter hung up his plastic sleeve in 1982 after a 13-year practice, and jumped head-first into show business. He hasn't treated a case of foot rot since.