Ed Blanchard was known to family and friends as a wild, reckless
cowboy long before horsemen of the West recognized him as a noted
maker of cowboy spurs. But it was his years spent herding snorty
cattle and cinching his saddle on broncs that taught him his trade
as both a cowboy and a spur maker.
Jane Pattie has researched the times and added historical
background, and she has drawn on interviews she did with Blanchard
for her earlier book, Cowboy Spurs and Their Makers. But it is from
New Mexico rancher Tom Kelly, Blanchard's cousin, that she
uncovered Blanchard's work in the cattle business and how he
learned the art of hammering hot steel into the shape of spurs to
fit a cowboy's boots.
Together, Pattie and Kelly tell a dual tale of old times and of
change: the story of spur making as experienced by one of its more
prolific practitioners and the story of cowboys in the early part
of the twentieth century. Through Blanchard's experiences, the
authors trace the changes of Western life, from horse to pickup
truck, from hand-forged spurs to commercial manufacture. Ranch
life, the cowboy life, and metalworking in the American West are
interwoven through the book, as they were in the real life of
Blanchard, who emerges from these pages as a humorous, down-home
regional character readers will be glad to get to know.
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