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A Visual Dictionary of the Old West
Language: en
Pages: 40
Authors: Bobbie Kalman
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-10 - Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company

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A visual dictionary of the Old West that focuses on the life of cowboys, western settlers, boomtowns, and the gold rush.
Western Words
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Ramon F. Adams
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-03 - Publisher:

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This book, originally published in 1944, has 5,000 words of cowboy language as vibrant now as it was in the old American frontier. The native cowman forged his
Western Words: a Dictionary of the Old West
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Ramon Adams
Categories: Reference
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-11 - Publisher:

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Western Words has 5,000 words of cowboy language as vibrant now as it was in the old American frontier. "Within the cowman's figures of speech lie the rich fiel
Dictionary of the American West
Language: en
Pages: 516
Authors: Win Blevins
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-08-01 - Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

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Did you ever need to spell “dogie” (as in, get-along-little), or need to know what a “sakey” is? This is the book that can tell you how to spell, pronou
A Dictionary of the Old West, 1850-1900
Language: en
Pages: 399
Authors: Peter Watts
Categories: Americanisms
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher: Wings

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The hybrid language of the frontier is revealed in this compilation of terms used by the cattlemen, frontiersmen, scouts, cowboys, and gamblers.