The Cody Gunfight Alleged Shooter of Spectators at Gunfight Show Has Outlaw Record BY RETT NELSON It wasn’t supposed to happen, and the police recently imposed safety guidelines so it won’t happen again, but last summer something went terribly wrong at the Cody gunfight. On July 29, 2016, twelve actors gathered on 11th Street for […]
Indians, Vigilantes, and Buffalo Women
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 […]
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 […]
Harry Rutter Was a Cowboy
Harry Rutter, older years. 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 […]