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in Life in the West (1842) 120: Zay, command that soaplock at the bar to [...] present me with my gin sling immediately.at soap lock, n.
in Life in the West (1842) 120: Zay, command that soaplock at the bar to [...] present me with my gin sling immediately. Life in the West cited in Imperial Dict. (1883) 256: He is no longer a benedick, but a quiet married man.at benedict, n.
Life in the Far West (1849) 100: I’ll raise his hair, as sure as shootin’.at sure as shooting under sure as..., phr.
Life in the Far West (1849) 57: They became [...] ‘awful fond,’ and consequently about once a-week had their tiffs and makes-up.at awful, adv.
Life in the Far West (1849) 66: Ho, boys, hyar’s a deck, and hyar’s the beaver (rattling the coin).at beaver, n.1
Life in the Far West (1849) 118: He took unto himself another wife [...] thus equipped with both his better halves attired in all the glory of forfarraw, he went his way.at better half, n.
Life in the Far West (1849) 4: No sirre-e; I went out when Spiers lost his animals.at no siree (bob)!, excl.
Life in the Far West (1849) 60: ‘Mary,’ he said, ‘I’m about to break. They’re hunting me like a fall buck, and I’m bound to quit. Don’t think any more about me, for I shall never come back.’.at break, v.2
Life in the Far West (1849) 10: Hyars brown-skin acomin’. [Ibid.] 19: Yep, old gal! and keep your nose open; thar’s brown skin about, I’m thinking, and maybe you’ll get roped.at brownskin, n.
Life in the Far West (1849) 66: What! Meek, old ’coon! I thought you were under?at coon, n.
Life in the Far West (1849) 5: A sight, marm, this coon’s gone over.at coon, n.
Life in the Far West (1849) 18: Them diggings gets too over-crowded now-a-days, and it’s hard to fetch breath amongst them big bands of corncrackers.at corncracker (n.) under corn, n.1
Life in the Far West (1849) 186: I’m dog-gone if it ain’t!at I’ll be doggoned! (excl.) under doggone, v.
Life in the Far West (1849) 12: He [...] blazes away at the first Injun as comes up, and dropped him slick.at drop, v.3
Life in the Far West (1849) 13: The Pawnees made a raise of a dozen mules, wagh!at faugh!, excl.
Life in the Far West (1849) 31: ‘How do you feel?’ ‘Half froze for hair. Wagh!’.at freeze, v.1
Life in the Far West (1849) 12: The mules, which was a-snorting with funk and running before the Injuns followed her right into the corral.at funk, n.2
Life in the Far West (1849) 98: One from the land of Cakes [...] sought to ‘great round’ [sic] (in trade) a right ‘smart’ Yankee, but couldn’t ‘shine’.at get round, v.
Life in the Far West (1849) 3: Them three’s all ‘gone under’.at go under, v.
Life in the Far West (1849) 8: Thar was old grit in him.at grit, n.1
Life in the Far West (1849) 5: I’ve ‘raised the hair’ of more than one Apach. [Ibid.] 31: To approach the Indian camp and charge into it, ‘lift’ as much ‘hair’ as they could.at hair, n.
Life in the Far West (1849) 31: ‘How do you feel?’ ‘Half froze for hair. Wagh!’.at half, adv.
Life in the Far West (1849) 135: After a long journey, they will reach the happy hunting-grounds.at happy hunting grounds (n.) under happy, adj.
Life in the Far West (1849) 10: I ups old Greaser and let one Injun ‘have it’.at let someone have it (v.) under have, v.
Life in the Far West (1849) 32: He pronounced himself a heap better.at heap, adv.
Life in the Far West (1849) 3: Sam had his train along, ready to hitch up for the Mexican country.at hitch up, v.
Life in the Far West (1849) 70: Paying the penalty in a fit of horrors.at horrors, the, n.
Life in the Far West (1849) 70: Suffering from the usual consequences of having ‘kept it up’ beyond the usual point, paying the penalty in a fit of ‘horrors’.at keep it up (v.) under keep, v.
Life in the Far West (1849) 4: Old St Vrain could knock the hind-sight off him though, when it came to shootin’.at knock the hindsights off (v.) under knock, v.
Life in the Far West (1849) 55: From that moment he was ‘gone beaver;’ ‘he felt queer,’ he said, all over like a buffalo shot in the lights.at light, n.
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