Cowboy Spur Maker: The Story of Ed Blanchard

Illustrations

ILLUSTRATIONS Cowboys having dinner at Water Canyon Station 11 Charles George Tinguely 20 J. P. Kelly 24 Carlos Blanchard 30 Hermas Blanchard in the Blanchard Meat Market 33 Hermas Blanchard and group of townsmen 34 Hermas Blanchard in 1884 35 Lilly Tinguely Blanchard 37 Blanchard barns and corrals at Water Canyon 42 Anna Tinguely and Lilly Tinguely Blanchard 44 Jim and Frank Kelly 46 Ed Blanchard in 1913 47 The Kelly camp on Mount Baldy in 1923 49 Ed Blanchard in Water Canyon in 1918 57 Ed Blanchard in 1918 while in the U.S. Army 58 Ed Blanchard, Frank Kelly, and Jim Kelly in Water Canyon 61 Log bunkhouse at Currycomb Ranch 63 The Cook boys 66 Frank Kelly in Dead Cow Gulch 91 New Mexico cowboys herd Longhorns at Magdalena 93 Barns and pens on the old Rueben Pankey ranch headquarters 102 The Rueben Pankey collection of spurs 103 The Tom Kelly collection of spurs 118 The Cook brothers on their Arizona ranch in the 1950s 119 Ed Blanchard’s shop near Yucca, Arizona 124 Frank Kelly and his son Tom at Water Canyon in 1953 129 Ed Blanchard in his shop 130 SPUR GALLERY Four different styles of spurs by Blanchard 75 Spurs with chap guards crafted by Hugh Pankey 76 Kid’s spurs made for Tom Kelly 76 Unmarked spurs made for Jack Hulse 77 Pair of Blanchard’s early-day spurs made for George Latham 77 Spurs made for a rancher named Tipton 78 Spurs made for Claude “Hump” Humphreys 79 One-piece spurs made for George Foster 79 Made-to-order bits by Blanchard 80 Unmarked spurs made for Bill Pankey 80 One of a pair of Blanchard’s personal spurs 81 One-piece spurs made for Frank Kelly 81 Two pairs of Blanchard spurs from Bill Swope collection 82 One-piece steel spurs made for Jim Kelly in 1946 82 Stainless steel spurs made for rancher George Coupland 83 Two-piece stainless steel spurs made for Joe Pankey 83 Two-piece stainless steel spur with brass initials ER 84 Steel spurs with chap guards 84 Brass-mounted pair of stainless steel spurs 85 Spur from a pair of two-piece stainless steel spurs 85 Steel spurs with old-style mounting belonging to Bob Cook 86 Steel spurs with chap guards made in 1954 86 Style No. 6 goose-neck spur made for Bill Cook in 1975 87 Stainless steel spurs made for Mike Kelly at Yucca, Arizona 88 ...