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...]
How I Came to Montana
A Window into Life in Montana, 100 Years Ago BY MARY EDIGHOFER My home was in Rapids, Minnesota. One day in January, 1912, I received a letter from my sister-in-law asking me to go to Wibaux, Montana, to care for a sick cousin as she was unable to go herself. She sent me $25.00 for traveling expenses and thinking the prospects for work would be better in Montana, I accepted … [Read more...]
Pursuing the Chiricahua Apache Across the Border
Chihuahua Cavalry Massacre Apache Innocents BY TOM HORN (From Life of Tom Horn, originally published 1904) This was about noon, and Sieber told me to go back to the command and move them up to the place where we were [after the Apache Outbreak at San Carlos and in Mexico]; that we would likely get there by sundown or before, and to wait there till he came, as he said … [Read more...]