We Pointed Them North Recollections of a Cowpuncher by Abbott E. C - 1939

Chicago.: Lakeside Press., Christmas, 1991.. First edition thus.. Gilt decorated hard cover. . Fine copy. As new.. Octavo.. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., [1939]., 1939. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Two-tone decorated cloth, xv [1], 218 pp., top edges green, introduction, map, illustrated with drawings by Ross Santee and from photos. 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." A leading book on the range cattle industry of which Six Score 1 says, "This is perhaps the most straight forward account of cowboy life. Teddy Blue Abbott was raised in Nebraska; after leaving home his first job as a cowboy was with the notorious Olive outfit. He had a number of other jobs before coming up the trail to… Read More