Cowboys., Ranch life., Frontier and pioneer life - West (U.S.), Cowboys, Ranch life, Frontier and pioneer life. Abbott, Edward Charles, 1860-1939 Smith, Helena Huntington. 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. We pointed them North recollections of a cowpuncher. 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.
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. 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.
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.
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