We Pointed Them North by E.C. "Teddy Blue" Abbott

First published in 1939, We Pointed Them North has been brought back into print by the University of Oklahoma Press in completely new format, with drawings by Nick Eggenhofer, and with the full, original text. So here it is-the cowboy classic, with the “terrible” times and the “fun” which have entertained readers everywhere. 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.” 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. My part was to keep out of the way and not mess it up by being literary…. This is his story, as told to Helena Huntington Smith, who says that the book is “all Teddy Blue.

For more than fifty years he was known to cowmen from Texas to Alberta as “Teddy Blue.” 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. Abbott was a cowboy in the great days of the 1870’s and 1880’s. Russell and the 1919 Victory Stampedeīy: EC “Teddy Blue” Abbott and Helen Huntington SmithĮ. We Pointed Them North: Recollections of a Cowpuncher (Paperback) E.C. pioglitazone " North America continues to see strong growth and we made good. Association Member: ABAA ILAB Seller Rating: Contact seller Book First Edition Used - Hardcover Condition: Very Good+ US 450.00 Convert currency US 5.50 Shipping Within U.S.A. Cash is very valuable because if I give you cash, you have it and you. Published by Farrar & Rinehart, N.Y., 1939 Seller: Old West Books (ABAA), St.

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We Pointed Them North by E.C. &quot;Teddy Blue&quot; Abbott

We Pointed Them North by E.C. "Teddy Blue" Abbott