Cowboy cartoonist and Leanin' Tree artist Boots Reynolds has long been known as a man who's skilled with a paintbrush and ink pen. But who could have known he's also a writer of darn funny
yarns - and a maestro in the kitchen as well? Well, two out of three ain't bad. "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." "Boots possesses one of the great rarities of nature - natural comic vision. He can make you laugh at nothing much - or at something all social restraint cries out against
as an object of humor." -Patrick McManus, Outdoor humor columnist and author
