Wild Horse and Heritage Days
Home | Sponsors | Schedules | Map | Tickets | Contact Us
Schedule of Events
Thurs. June 7
Festival of Learning 8am-5pm
14th Annual Utah Wild Horse & Burro Festival Adoption 8am-5pm
Parade 4:30pm
Opening Ceremonies 5pm
Displays, Demos and Vendors 5-9pm
Pony Express Race 7pm
Horse Shoe Throwing Tournament 6pm
Poetry Contest 5-9pm
Fri. June 8
Festival of Learning 8am-5pm
14th Annual Wild Horse and Burrow Festival Show & Adoption 8am-5pm
Entertainment 9am-5pm
Youth Poetry Contest 10am
Antique Tractor Pulls 2pm
VIP Chuckwagon Dinner 5pm
BBQ Cook-off Check-in Begins 8pm
Poetry & Music Concert Opener 7pm
Baxter Black Concert 8pm
Sat. June 9
Festival of Learning 8am-5pm
14th Annual Wild Horse and Burrow Festival Show & Adoption 8am-5pm
Battle of the Bands 9am-10pm
Horse Pulls 2pm
BBQ Cook-off Awards 5pm
Lil' Cowhand Rodeo 7pm
Ranch Rodeo 8pm
Fireworks Following Rodeo
 

WELCOME

Thank you for visiting our site. We are currently updating the site for 2012. Please check back often for updated information.

Baxter BBaxter Black in Concertlack in Concert - Friday, June 8 at the Deseret Peak Complex.

Baxter Black, described by the New York Times as '...probably the nation's most successful living poet,"...thinks it's an exaggeration.

He can shoe a horse, string a bob wire fence and bang out a Bob Willis classic on his flat top guitar. Cowboy poet, ex-veterinarian and sorry team roper, he has more hair around his lip than on his head. Raised in New Mexico, spent his workin' life in the mountain west tormenting cows, now he travels the country tormenting cowboys.

Since 1982, Baxter Black has been rhyming his way into the national spotlight, and now stands as the best selling cowboy poet in the world. He's written several books (including one rodeo novel and its sequel), recorded over a dozen audio and video tapes, CD's and DVD's, and has achieved notoriety as a syndicated columnist and radio commentator. From the Tonight Show and PBS to NPR and the NFR, Baxter's wacko verse has been seen and heard by millions. His works are prominently displayed in both big city libraries and small town feed stores.

He still doesn't own a television or a cell phone, and his idea of a modern convenience is Velcro chaps.

This former large animal veterinarian can be followed nationwide through his column, National Public Radio, public appearances, television and also through his books, CD's, videos and website, www.baxterblack.com.

So, in a nut shell (where some believe he may have evolved) there is considerably more to Baxter than just an entertainer. He is the real thing. Because, as he says, "It's hard to be what you aren't." Baxter's philosophy is simple enough - in spite of all the computerized, digitized, high-tech innovations now available to mankind, there will always be a need for someone who can "think up stuff".

 

Wilde Horse

 

 

Special Thank you to our Sponsors:

Tooele County Tooele County
Energy Solutions
www.exploretooele.com www.exploretooele.com
USMAG
Ensign Ranches of Utah
Beehive Broadband

Special Thank you to our Wild Horse and Heritage Days
committee and volunteers.

© copyright 2009 Tooele County Corporation

 

 

 

Deseret Peak Complex Deseret Peak Complex Tooele County