Choteau Acantha (MT), 16 Sept 1943
Blue Osgood Found Dead In His Cabin In Belleview District
Ripe in years and thoroughly seasoned with experiences of life--and more especially those which a beautiful West and a home on the range had given him--"Blue" Osgood has come to the end of his earthly journey.
He was found dead yesterday by C. Wilson Gray, neighbor of a few miles or less and a friend of "Blue's" since boyhood. The end, it was obvious from circumstances, had occurred the day before. Death was the result of natural causes.
A native of Fryeburg, Maine, and born in the year 1864, Eldon Jones Osgood came west when he just about reached his majorities, according to those who best knew the rugged old timer and picturesque character. He spent some time in Helena or thereabouts during the middle 1880s and was also at Sun River Crossing whacking bulls and generally living a young man's adventurous life of that period. He migrated on up to Sun River country and the Teton and was a ranch hand for Charles Gray, one of the early day cattlemen of the Belleview region, roughly about halfway between the Teton and Sun river.
He is said to have fired the boiler for the first steam threshing outfit brought into what is now Teton county. Then, so tradition has it, he acquired the sobriquet, "Blue". The day was a chill one and young Osgood had on a brand new blue pair of "Boss of the Road" overalls. To stimulate circulation and keep warm, and also with a relish for merriment and a delight in entertaining, Osgood leaped upon a platform and began a lively jig. "Look at the Blue Son of a So and So dance," someone in the gang yelled and as few knew his real name they commenced right then and there to call him "Blue". Another version is that he had the first pair blue denim "Boss of the Road" brand of overalls in the country.
But regardlesss of name or other circumstances, he turned stockman and homesteader, acquiring a ranch not many miles southwest of the present Emil Durr place. Here over a long period of years he raised cattle and sheep and lived a useful, helpful life. He never married and it is not believed there are any immediate survivors.
He joined the Choteau lodge No. 11, I.O.O.F., on Nov. 22, 1895, and served the order faithfully ever after and had been "through all the chairs." His brethren of the order will be in charge of the funeral services in Choteau at 2 p.m., Monday, at the Masonic hall. Burial will be in Choteau cemetery.
Blue Osgood Found Dead In His Cabin In Belleview District
Ripe in years and thoroughly seasoned with experiences of life--and more especially those which a beautiful West and a home on the range had given him--"Blue" Osgood has come to the end of his earthly journey.
He was found dead yesterday by C. Wilson Gray, neighbor of a few miles or less and a friend of "Blue's" since boyhood. The end, it was obvious from circumstances, had occurred the day before. Death was the result of natural causes.
A native of Fryeburg, Maine, and born in the year 1864, Eldon Jones Osgood came west when he just about reached his majorities, according to those who best knew the rugged old timer and picturesque character. He spent some time in Helena or thereabouts during the middle 1880s and was also at Sun River Crossing whacking bulls and generally living a young man's adventurous life of that period. He migrated on up to Sun River country and the Teton and was a ranch hand for Charles Gray, one of the early day cattlemen of the Belleview region, roughly about halfway between the Teton and Sun river.
He is said to have fired the boiler for the first steam threshing outfit brought into what is now Teton county. Then, so tradition has it, he acquired the sobriquet, "Blue". The day was a chill one and young Osgood had on a brand new blue pair of "Boss of the Road" overalls. To stimulate circulation and keep warm, and also with a relish for merriment and a delight in entertaining, Osgood leaped upon a platform and began a lively jig. "Look at the Blue Son of a So and So dance," someone in the gang yelled and as few knew his real name they commenced right then and there to call him "Blue". Another version is that he had the first pair blue denim "Boss of the Road" brand of overalls in the country.
But regardlesss of name or other circumstances, he turned stockman and homesteader, acquiring a ranch not many miles southwest of the present Emil Durr place. Here over a long period of years he raised cattle and sheep and lived a useful, helpful life. He never married and it is not believed there are any immediate survivors.
He joined the Choteau lodge No. 11, I.O.O.F., on Nov. 22, 1895, and served the order faithfully ever after and had been "through all the chairs." His brethren of the order will be in charge of the funeral services in Choteau at 2 p.m., Monday, at the Masonic hall. Burial will be in Choteau cemetery.
Choteau Acantha (MT), 16 Sept 1943
Blue Osgood Found Dead In His Cabin In Belleview District
Ripe in years and thoroughly seasoned with experiences of life--and more especially those which a beautiful West and a home on the range had given him--"Blue" Osgood has come to the end of his earthly journey.
He was found dead yesterday by C. Wilson Gray, neighbor of a few miles or less and a friend of "Blue's" since boyhood. The end, it was obvious from circumstances, had occurred the day before. Death was the result of natural causes.
A native of Fryeburg, Maine, and born in the year 1864, Eldon Jones Osgood came west when he just about reached his majorities, according to those who best knew the rugged old timer and picturesque character. He spent some time in Helena or thereabouts during the middle 1880s and was also at Sun River Crossing whacking bulls and generally living a young man's adventurous life of that period. He migrated on up to Sun River country and the Teton and was a ranch hand for Charles Gray, one of the early day cattlemen of the Belleview region, roughly about halfway between the Teton and Sun river.
He is said to have fired the boiler for the first steam threshing outfit brought into what is now Teton county. Then, so tradition has it, he acquired the sobriquet, "Blue". The day was a chill one and young Osgood had on a brand new blue pair of "Boss of the Road" overalls. To stimulate circulation and keep warm, and also with a relish for merriment and a delight in entertaining, Osgood leaped upon a platform and began a lively jig. "Look at the Blue Son of a So and So dance," someone in the gang yelled and as few knew his real name they commenced right then and there to call him "Blue". Another version is that he had the first pair blue denim "Boss of the Road" brand of overalls in the country.
But regardlesss of name or other circumstances, he turned stockman and homesteader, acquiring a ranch not many miles southwest of the present Emil Durr place. Here over a long period of years he raised cattle and sheep and lived a useful, helpful life. He never married and it is not believed there are any immediate survivors.
He joined the Choteau lodge No. 11, I.O.O.F., on Nov. 22, 1895, and served the order faithfully ever after and had been "through all the chairs." His brethren of the order will be in charge of the funeral services in Choteau at 2 p.m., Monday, at the Masonic hall. Burial will be in Choteau cemetery.
Blue Osgood Found Dead In His Cabin In Belleview District
Ripe in years and thoroughly seasoned with experiences of life--and more especially those which a beautiful West and a home on the range had given him--"Blue" Osgood has come to the end of his earthly journey.
He was found dead yesterday by C. Wilson Gray, neighbor of a few miles or less and a friend of "Blue's" since boyhood. The end, it was obvious from circumstances, had occurred the day before. Death was the result of natural causes.
A native of Fryeburg, Maine, and born in the year 1864, Eldon Jones Osgood came west when he just about reached his majorities, according to those who best knew the rugged old timer and picturesque character. He spent some time in Helena or thereabouts during the middle 1880s and was also at Sun River Crossing whacking bulls and generally living a young man's adventurous life of that period. He migrated on up to Sun River country and the Teton and was a ranch hand for Charles Gray, one of the early day cattlemen of the Belleview region, roughly about halfway between the Teton and Sun river.
He is said to have fired the boiler for the first steam threshing outfit brought into what is now Teton county. Then, so tradition has it, he acquired the sobriquet, "Blue". The day was a chill one and young Osgood had on a brand new blue pair of "Boss of the Road" overalls. To stimulate circulation and keep warm, and also with a relish for merriment and a delight in entertaining, Osgood leaped upon a platform and began a lively jig. "Look at the Blue Son of a So and So dance," someone in the gang yelled and as few knew his real name they commenced right then and there to call him "Blue". Another version is that he had the first pair blue denim "Boss of the Road" brand of overalls in the country.
But regardlesss of name or other circumstances, he turned stockman and homesteader, acquiring a ranch not many miles southwest of the present Emil Durr place. Here over a long period of years he raised cattle and sheep and lived a useful, helpful life. He never married and it is not believed there are any immediate survivors.
He joined the Choteau lodge No. 11, I.O.O.F., on Nov. 22, 1895, and served the order faithfully ever after and had been "through all the chairs." His brethren of the order will be in charge of the funeral services in Choteau at 2 p.m., Monday, at the Masonic hall. Burial will be in Choteau cemetery.
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