We Pointed Them North: Recollections of a Cowpuncher

Recollections of a Cowpuncher

Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, 19th Century, Biography & Memoir, Historical
Cover of the book We Pointed Them North: Recollections of a Cowpuncher by E.C. "Teddy Blue" Abbott, Helena Huntington Smith, University of Oklahoma Press
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Author: E.C. "Teddy Blue" Abbott, Helena Huntington Smith ISBN: 9780806186825
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press Publication: May 4, 2012
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press Language: English
Author: E.C. "Teddy Blue" Abbott, Helena Huntington Smith
ISBN: 9780806186825
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Publication: May 4, 2012
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Language: English

E. C. Abbott was a cowboy in the great days of the 1870's and 1880's. He came up the trail to Montana from Texas with the long-horned herds which were to stock the northern ranges; he punched cows in Montana when there wasn't a fence in the territory; and he married a daughter of Granville Stuart, the famous early-day stockman and Montana pioneer. For more than fifty years he was known to cowmen from Texas to Alberta as "Teddy Blue."

This is his story, as told to Helena Huntington Smith, who says that the book is "all Teddy Blue. My part was to keep out of the way and not mess it up by being literary.... Because the cowboy flourished in the middle of the Victorian age, which is certainly a funny paradox, no realistic picture of him was ever drawn in his own day. Here is a self-portrait by a cowboy which is full and honest." And Teddy Blue himself says, "Other old-timers have told all about stampedes and swimming rivers and what a terrible time we had, but they never put in any of the fun, and fun was at least half of it."

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E. C. Abbott was a cowboy in the great days of the 1870's and 1880's. He came up the trail to Montana from Texas with the long-horned herds which were to stock the northern ranges; he punched cows in Montana when there wasn't a fence in the territory; and he married a daughter of Granville Stuart, the famous early-day stockman and Montana pioneer. For more than fifty years he was known to cowmen from Texas to Alberta as "Teddy Blue."

This is his story, as told to Helena Huntington Smith, who says that the book is "all Teddy Blue. My part was to keep out of the way and not mess it up by being literary.... Because the cowboy flourished in the middle of the Victorian age, which is certainly a funny paradox, no realistic picture of him was ever drawn in his own day. Here is a self-portrait by a cowboy which is full and honest." And Teddy Blue himself says, "Other old-timers have told all about stampedes and swimming rivers and what a terrible time we had, but they never put in any of the fun, and fun was at least half of it."

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