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Boots 'n' Beans
an art book "full of BEANS"
by Boots Reynolds

A one-of-a-kind collector's item, "Boots 'n' Beans" features more than 50 of Boots Reynolds' humorous Western paintings of the cowboy life. After living as a bronc rider, roper, horse trainer and rodeo clown, Boots rediscovered his youthful talent for drawing and painting in the '70s. He became a featured artist for Leanin' Tree, which has sold millions of greeting cards with his humorous illustrations. This, his first book, combines the best of his paintings with the "stories behind the art," plus vignettes of the 30-plus Westerners who have provided their original bean recipes. Packed with colorful artwork, insightful writing on cowboy lore and tasty recipes, "Boots 'n' Beans" is an art book "full of BEANS."

"This is a book of bean recipes, not a cookbook," proclaims Boots, whose chief tool in the kitchen is a can opener. Luckily, he gets plenty of help from a couple dozen bona fide Western cooks. For this book he recruited favorite bean dishes from a passel of genuine cowboy chuck wagon cooks, governors from half a dozen Western states, fellow cartoonists, the family of country artist Reba McEntire and First Lady Laura Bush – among others.

But there's just as much Boots as beans in this book. One of the premier Western humor artists and a featured Leanin' Tree illustrator for more than 26 years, Boots' consummate talent is in transforming the routine and mundane of cowboy culture into something hilarious. Combining a couple decades of the best Boots Reynolds artwork, along with the often-hilarious stories behind them, "Boots 'n' Beans" is a tip of the ladle to "the food that won the West."
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Nonfiction. 120 pages, 11"x8.5", hardcover with dust jacket, full color
More than 50 illustrations
ISNB 978-1-879628-29-8
$34
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