We Pointed Them North: Recollections of a Cowpuncher

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: B002L4MPK6 ISBN13: 9780806113661 Release Date: November 1976 Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press Length: 272 Pages Weight: 5.05 lbs. Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.0" 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