Abe Foster (1881-) was an American ranch hand who worked at Pronghorn Ranch in Rio Blanco County, Colorado during the 1900s.
Biography[]
Abe Foster was born in 1881, and he was hired by David Geddes as a ranch hand at Pronghorn Ranch in Rio Blanco County, Colorado during the early 1900s. Foster quickly befriended the new ranch hand John Marston (going by "Jim Milton") shortly after Marston was hired in 1907, showing him around the ranch, teaching him how to milk cows, and asking about his wife and family (including if he was a gunslinger, to which Marston responded negatively). Later, Marston rescued him from the Laramie Gang leader Steven Boggs when he came to the ranch to intimidate Geddes and his ranch hands into selling the ranch. After helping to repel a Laramie Gang attack on the ranch at night, Foster, Marston, and the overseer Tom Dickens were sent with rifles to attack the Laramie Gang hideout at Hanging Dog Ranch, and Foster and Dickens flanked the outlaws as Marston took them on head-on. Over the next few months, Foster and Marston continued to work together, but Marston ultimately left the ranch to buy his own ranch, Beecher's Hope, in Texas, while Foster continued to work for Geddes.