If you thought you knew Boots, you don't know beans. Celebrated cowboy cartoonist Boots Reynolds hands down a whole heap of humor for the food that won the West in this new art book featuring more than 50 of his humorous Western paintings of the cowboy life. After living as a bronc rider, roper, horse trainer and rodeo clown, in the '70s Boots rediscovered his youthful talent for drawing and painting. 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, everyone from chuck wagon cooks to governors to First Lady Laura Bush. Packed with colorful ­artwork, insightful writing on cowboy lore and tasty recipes, Boots 'n' Beans is no cookbook. Rather, it's an art book full of BEANS. '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