Teddy Blue Abbott

EDWARD CHARLES ABBOTT was born in England in 1860. He came to the United States as a baby with his parents who settled in Lincoln, Nebraska. At that time, Nebraska was full of Texas cattle and Texas cowboys heading north. It was here that young Teddy Abbott joined the early trail-drives heading north to Montana.

Teddy Abbott was a cowboy in the great days of the 1870's and 1980's. He came up the trail to Montana from Texas with the long-horned herds which were intended to stock the northern ranges. He punched cows in Montana when there wasn't a fence in the territory. He later married a daughter of Granville Stewart, the wealthy and famous early-day stockman and Montana pioneer. For more than fifty years, Edward Abbott was known to cowmen from Texas to Alberta as "Teddy Blue".