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We pointed them north : recollections of a cowpuncher

Title

We pointed them north : recollections of a cowpuncher / by E. C. Abbott ("Teddy Blue") and Helena Huntington Smith ; with drawings by Nick Eggenhofer.

Author

Abbott, E. C. (Edward Charles), 1860-1939

Publication

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1955.
©1939.

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Description

247 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, music; 22 cm

Summary

E. C. Abbott was a cowboy in the great days of the 1870s and 1880s. He came up the trail to Montana from Texas with the long-horned herds that 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." So here it is--the cowboy classic, with the "terrible" times and the "fun" which have entertained readers everywhere -- Book jacket

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Americana
autobiographies (literary works)
Personal narratives
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Personal narratives.
Récits personnels.

Contents

Introduction -- How i came to montana -- the texas trail -- cowboys and cowpunchers -- no tents, no tarps, and damn few slickers -- sam bass skips out -- a cowboy forever -- My father -- early days in nebraska -- i try to join the pawnees -- new boots and a six-shooter -- a damn fool kid -- Wild days of the seventies -- tough, drunk, and sixteen -- i shoot a man -- an infidel -- they couldn't make a farmer of me -- Up the trail in '79 -- the olive outfit -- "all horses and men" -- shallow graves -- rustlers in the nations -- my new clothes not appreciated -- Sagebrush and mexicans -- wet horses -- I get little billy -- The rattlesnake wins -- With john chisum on the pecos -- a woman outlaw -- Riding the range in '82 -- buffalo bill upsets a roundup -- johnny stringfellow falls off the water wagon -- dry drives -- i drink alkali and eat coyote -- Thorns an inch long -- a homesick texan -- trail bosses knew their job -- lightning and hail -- "you can sleep all winter when you get to montana" -- On the trail in '83 -- theft of a pillow -- giving the u.p. passengers a thrill -- a pious new englander -- calamity jane gets us a drink -- i repay a debt -- Montana at las -- an invitation to the parsonage -- i get the name of "blue" -- death in a hotel room -- Another seagoing yankee -- i go to work for the n bar -- repping in '84 -- "forty years a cowpuncher" -- "the best-looking cowboy on powder river" -- I quit the roundup -- crossing the yellowstone -- "how far is it up no'th?" -- i have too much snap -- Miles city -- buffalo hunters, bullwhackers, and cowboys -- the n bar outfit trees the marshal -- the girls -- knight of the plains -- cowboy annie -- The mouth of the musselshell -- an awful lot of montana history -- jenny is scalped -- we turn them loose on the musselshell -- bad luck still holds -- Rocky point -- recipe for indian whisky -- winter in a cow camp -- i pick a wife -- fired again -- i go to work for the d h s -- Granville stuart -- the horse-thief clean-up -- a wonderful outifit -- texas greenhorns -- "you take them out of the saddle" -- Granville stuart's daughters -- the white shirt brigade -- i meet charlie russel -- "they've been living in heaven for a thousand years" -- a cheyenne girl -- Scraps of paper -- the heroic cheyennes -- dull knife and little wolf -- too excited to shoot straight -- little wolf wins through -- Cheyenne outbreak of '84 -- "we are even" -- in front of a tepee -- pine is my indian -- "C Co 7 Cav" -- nobody will ever see it again -- The hard winter -- pike landusky -- sixty below -- "fair, fair, with golden hair" -- "you smell like an old indian" -- a frozen wilderness -- deep snow and indian whisky -- spring at last -- My reform -- i say a few words -- true love and troubles -- a tenderfoot nuisance -- a different kind of tenderfoot -- the roar of the falls -- Cattle as wild as buffalo -- near death in a night run -- roundups all summer -- mary cooks supper for me -- we go for a ride -- I go to work in a mine -- saving money uphill work -- i hire as a bullion guard -- maried at last -- end of the open range -- concerning six-shooters -- a prehistoric race -- Some more about cowboys -- independence and pride -- loyalty to their outfits -- gun fights -- how outlaws were made -- I never was really bad -- cowboys on a spree -- "the little black bull come down the mountain" -- ogalla song -- the yellowstone, the yellowstone

ISBN

9780806113661
0806113669

LCCN

55009632

OCLC

ocm02789749
2789749
SCSB-283891

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library