WESTERN WORDS

ISBN: 9780282601331 Géneros: WNG Sinópsis: Excerpt from Western Words A Dictionary of the Range Cow Camp and TrailThey say a good range cook never misses a rock when herding his teams across the country I hope that like him I have not missed many words from the cowmans vocabulary in compiling this lexicon My greatest pleasure in collecting the material has been in associating with the cowboy in his native haunts Never loquacious around strangers he has attained the reputation of being about as talkative as a Piegan Indian But I learned as a small boy that when one becomes intimate with him he dont depend entirely on the Sign language Among his own kind he is never hogtied when it comes to makin chin music In fact if he accepts you his tongue gets plumb frolicsomeFrom first youthful impressions my interest in his speech has grown until recording it has become the hobby Of a lifetime When a tender foot hears this range vernacular distinctive picturesque and pungent he is as surprised as a dog with his first porcupine After he recovers from the shock of such unconventional English the more he listens the more refreshing it becomes because like a fifth ace in a poker deck it is so unexpectedAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books Find more at wwwforgottenbookscomThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work Forgotten Books uses stateoftheart technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works