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in Mining Frontier (1967) 217: D--n it, old quill-driver, you must come and take a drink with me.at quill-driver (n.) under quill, n.1
in Mining Frontier (1967) 217: D--n it, old quill-driver, you must come and take a drink with me. in Mining Frontier (1967) 72: I went to work and made up a decoction of poison oak and buckeye.at buckeye, n.2
Eve. Chronicle (Virginia City) 10 June in Mining Frontier (1967) 201: There was a sight o’ racin’ goin’ on in them times and I wanted my fin in everything o’ that kind.at fin, n.1
Eve. Chronicle (Virginia City) 10 June in Mining Frontier (1967) 202: It kind o’ made us feel uneasy about the gills.at gills, n.1
Eve. Chronicle (Virginia City) 10 June in Mining Frontier (1967) 201: ‘Speakin’ of horse racin’, said Jailer Birdsall last evening [...] ‘I had my dose an’ I’m a horsethief if I haven’t kept it dark for eighteen years.’.at horse thief (n.) under horse, n.
Eve. Chronicle (Virginia City) 10 June in Mining Frontier (1967) 202: We both had scads in them times an’ when the start was made we’d about five thousand on the black between us.at scad, n.2
Eve. Chronicle (Virginia City) 10 June in Mining Frontier (1967) 203: It was the lowest down shennanigen that ever was played on two honest men.at shenanigan, n.
Eve. Chronicle (Virginia City) 10 June in Mining Frontier (1967) 203: I oiled up my shooter.at shooter, n.1
Eve. Chronicle (Virginia City) 10 June in Mining Frontier (1967) 202: Everythin’ worked slick.at slick, adv.
Eve. Chronicle (Virginia City) 10 June in Mining Frontier (1967) 202: Hardy set to work an’ got the jockeys blind, stavin’ drunk.at staving, adv.
in Mining Frontier (1967) 129: The old gent invited all the neighbors and killed the fatted calf, and gave the biggest blowout the camp had ever seed.at blow-out, n.1
in Mining Frontier (1967) 132: I can caboose the whole durn lot under Order No. 6.at caboose, v.
in Mining Frontier (1967) 128: I don’t believe there’s a rooster [...] mean enough to take advantage o’ my ignorance and cold deck me right on the first deal.at cold-deck, v.1
in Mining Frontier (1967) 128: The old man was purty well fixed.at well-fixed, adj.
in Mining Frontier (1967) 97: A chiny dish trimmed with sparegrass [sic] an’ sallery.at sparrow-grass, n.
in Mining Frontier (1967) 129: In all public hoodoos it is a parliamentary rule for anybody as wants to ax questions to rise up an’ fire them off.at hoodoo, n.
in Mining Frontier (1967) 105: I am not able to say if he is the average Far-West American, of the Jonathan stripe, or not.at Jonathan, n.
in Mining Frontier (1967) 103: Some o’ them long-toed roosters what the book-sharps talk about.at book sharp (n.) under sharp, n.1
in Mining Frontier (1967) 128: Bill is goin’ to stand in an’ sling gospel.at sling, v.
in Mining Frontier (1967) 98: Amerriky’s a hell-snortin’ big piece of land.at snorting, adj.
in Mining Frontier (1967) 98: Great thunderation!at thunderation!, excl.
in Frontier X (1930) 252/1: I went in sat down and had some dinner [...] ate a square & talked awhile & then made the rest of the way home [DA].at square, n.
Frontier June 6: I’ll bet you, as they say in Harlem, a fat man, that not many American children being taught American history have any real sense of what that collision was like.at bet a fat man (against a pile of shit) (v.) under bet, v.
Frontier 179: This long-eared son of Satan, often called the Arizona canary or the Rocky Mountain mockingbird, will feed complacently until one begins to draw close.at Arizona nightingale (n.) under Arizona, adj.
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