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Charlie Russell and the Heroic Cheyenne

Charlie Russell

Also, Granville Stuart’s Desirable Daughters, and Teddy’s Infatuation With a Dusky Maiden BY TEDDY BLUE ABBOTT When I was with the N Bar there was a fellow working for their Powder River outfit by the name of John Green. He was from Texas like the rest of them, but he had been everywhere and seen everything, to hear him tell it. One morning at the ranch house they brought … [Read more...]

Indians, Vigilantes, and Buffalo Women

Teddy Blue Abbott, John Burgess, John Bowen, Miles City, Mont., 1884.

Recollections of a Cowboy BY TEDDY BLUE ABBOTT (From We Pointed Them North, Oklahoma University Press, originally published in 1939) A night or two before we left town that fall (in 1884), we were all together with the girls, drinking and having a good time, and I got dressed up. Cowboy Annie put her gold chain around my neck, and wound her scarf around the crown of my … [Read more...]

All Horses and Men, We Pointed Them North

Recollections of a Cowboy (Continued) BY TEDDY BLUE ABBOTT From 1874 to 1877 I was taking care of my father's cattle, and after a while the neighbors began putting cattle with me, paying me a $1.50 a head for 6 months. I herded them in the daytime and penned them at night, and for the first time in my life I could rustle a little cash. In 1875 I made $29 that way, and my … [Read more...]

Harry Rutter Was a Cowboy

He Drove Cattle to Montana, Put Away Outlaws, and Got the Girl BY PAT HILL Though his 2009 induction into the Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame simply states Harry Rutter was a cowboy, long-deceased friends and surviving family members agree that Rutter was quite a man out of the saddle as well. JoAnn Russell of Bozeman is Rutter's granddaughter. She has assembled a collection … [Read more...]

We Pointed Them North

Recollections of a Cowpuncher—How I Came to Montana BY TEDDY BLUE ABBOTT People who know me often talk as though I was from Texas. That is not correct. I was born in Granwich Hall, Granwich County of Norfolk, England, December 17, 1860. But I came to Montana with a herd of Texas cattle in 1883. This is where they get the idea that I am a Texan. All this part of Montana … [Read more...]

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