Pattie, Jane.

Cowboy Spur Maker : The Story of Ed Blanchard. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (161 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Muchas Gracias -- Part I Ed Blanchard Country -- Chapter 1 As I Know the Story -- Part II As Tom Kelly Remembers -- Chapter 2The Road to Water Canyon -- Chapter 3The Making of a Cowboy -- Chapter 4 From Horsebackto Horsepower -- Chapter 5 Cowboy Ways -- Chapter 6 The Forge and the Anvil -- Chapter 7 Handmade to Order -- Afterword Ranching in Blanchard CountryThen and Now -- Bibliography -- Index.

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. Together, Pattie and Kelly tell the story of spur making as experienced by one of its more prolific practitioners in the early part of the twentieth century.

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Blanchard, Edward Fred, -- 1894-1982.
Blacksmiths -- New Mexico -- Biography.
Ranchers -- New Mexico -- Biography.
Spurs -- New Mexico.


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