Bellwood Cowboy is the life story of one of the greatest men I ever knew. Artie Quinton is one of the last of the old time cowboys. His knowledge of livestock and ranch management is renown in Oklahoma. He worked for the Daube Cattle Co. for forty seven years starting during the Great Depression era of the 1930s. Born in a log cabin in 1912 he would lose his mother before he was a year and a half old, then the grandmother who raised him when he was twelve. He attended a country school through the eighth grade. Married to the girl of his dreams, he started working for Daube Ranches in 1937 for $35 a month and that included his wife's pay for cooking three meals a day for up to twenty cowboys. Artie advanced to foreman of Daube Ranches and acquired a reputation as the best ranch manager in the area. He retired in 1984 and at 98 years of age and legally blind, lives alone in the small town of Mill Creek, Oklahoma. Artie has preached more funerals than most preachers, and is the corner stone of his church. Follow his most unique life in the pages of Bellwood Cowboy. BELLWOOD COWBOY The Artie Quinton Story By Ted L. Pittman AuthorHouse Copyright © 2011 Ted L. Pittman All right reserved. ISBN: 978-1-4520-9681-0 Contents Introduction: A story from Bellwood's early days............................xviiPart one: Day one of a century..............................................1I see a child...............................................................6The Howard family...........................................................9The little Boy..............................................................19Bellwood School District....................................................23Shopping in early day Mill Creek............................................31Part two: Growing up in the hard times......................................37Boys Will Be Boys...........................................................44Part three: Love at first sight.............................................53The Storm of 1933...........................................................58Part 4: The Army Years......................................................63Agnes McClure Quinton.......................................................76Part 5: Working at the feed lot.............................................83She never did get rested....................................................96Move 'em out................................................................100Brothers by choice, Sisters by blood........................................106A real cowboy...............................................................114Ole Hawk....................................................................123Part Six: Home on the range 1945-1975.......................................129Miracles one right after another............................................132A thief in the night........................................................137Saved, And Doing God's Work.................................................144Cowboy life in the early 1950s..............................................150A time to test your faith...................................................164The Making of a Man.........................................................174A Rough Tumble..............................................................185Part seven: A healing from God..............................................203Part Seven: A healing from God 1976-1984....................................203Part eight: Retirement......................................................211The Last Day................................................................212Poems & Prose...............................................................221Quotes and comments.........................................................226Historical Reference........................................................248A History Of The Mill Creek Pentecostal Holiness Church.....................252Interesting facts and pretty good guesses...................................257The last Word...............................................................265Epilogue....................................................................267 Chapter One DAY ONE OF A CENTURY It is a common sight to see Artie Quinton walking along the streets of Mill Creek, Oklahoma clad in his blue coveralls and pushing his walker ahead of him. Folks know to watch for his slight figure as he plods steadily along. Artie has been walking these streets a long time, first about five miles per day for many years, then three miles, and now, the last several months, about a mile and a half. Not bad for his almost ninety-eight years. Artie lives alone these days, in a little white house just east of the Holiness Church he has attended since the early 1940s. He didn't plan it this way, but God has a way of changing your plans when you least expect it. Things have sort of been this way since his lo