Teddy Blue recalled a storm on a cattle drive in 1882: “Nobody knows now what those storms were like, because nobody has to stay out in them anymore, but believe me, they were awful . . . I was out in one that killed 14 head of cattle and six or seven horses and two men. . . one was so scared he threw his six-shooter away, for fear it would draw the lightening, and I remember old Matt Winter, with the rain pouring down and the lightening flashing, taking off his hat and yelling at God Almighty, ‘All right, you old bald-headed son of a bitch up there, if you want to kill me, come and do it.’ It scared the daylights out of the rest of us.”

Edward Charles Abbott, (“Teddy Blue”) We Pointed them North: Recollections of a Cowpuncher. Ed. Helena Huntington Smith. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1939, 1971.