Pointing North

E.C. “Teddy Blue” Abbott was a young man in the proverbial glory days of the Old West cowboy. As a teenager, he drove cattle up the trail from Texas to Montana. His experiences were recounted in a 1939 memoir called “We Pointed Them North: Recollections of a Cowpuncher. It was a rare firstperson account of the cattle drive era and was an important addition to the literary canon after deca...