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letter in Gone To Texas (1884) 7: They say they let them come on after airing their heels on the platform for twelve hours.at air one’s heels (v.) under air, v.
letter in Gone To Texas (1884) 7: They say they let them come on after airing their heels on the platform for twelve hours. letter 4 Oct. Gone To Texas (1884) 11: I guess we look like cutting up smart, anyways we’ll try.at cut up, v.1
letter 19 Nov. in Gone To Texas (1884) 25: We have them hot for breakfast [...] I have just hit the dodge for making them au fait, or whatever it is.at dodge, n.
letter 15 Dec. in Gone To Texas (1884) 31: The Mexicans are very funky of Americans if they have a pistol with them.at funky, adj.2
letter 15 Dec. in Gone To Texas (1884) 34: If they [...] didn’t get into rows in gambling-hells and bar-rooms, they wouldn’t be always getting killed.at hell, n.
letter 10 Oct. in Gone To Texas (1884) 14: He tells me about the time they were ‘fighting and hoorawing and fussing about here,’ meaning the war between North and South.at hurrah, v.
letter 4 Oct. in Gone To Texas (1884) 9: W— took me to the yard where his ‘buggy’ was. It is the oddest old rattletrap I ever saw.at rattletrap, n.
letter 21 Mar. in Gone To Texas (1884) 74: He seems to know [...] that, if he’s bitten, it’s all up with him.at all up with under all up, adj.
letter 9 Apr. in Gone To Texas (1884) 82: We don’t get too much literature out here to think letters are ‘boshy’; so scrawl away all you know.at boshy, adj.
letter 15 Apr. in Gone To Texas (1884) 84: His geese come and stay all day sometimes, and one of his gobblers has apparently taken up his abode here permanently.at gobbler, n.1
letter 30 Jan. in Gone To Texas (1884) 48: I’m afraid you must have thought ‘a Greaser had leaded me,’ as I see the Doctor says in one of his letters.at lead, v.
letter 7 Mar. in Gone To Texas (1884) 63: I had just laid in a nose-bag full of grub [...] and was peckish.at nosebag, n.
letter 27 Apr. in Gone To Texas (1884) 86: Thank heaven the rain’s come at last; as Willy says, ‘oodles of it!’.at oodles, n.
letter 7 Mar. in Gone To Texas (1884) 63: I had just laid in a nose-bag full of grub [...] and was peckish.at peckish, adj.
letter 30 Jan. in Gone To Texas (1884) 49: We had to turn out and get bedding, &c., into the wagon, eat breakfast, and roll out.at roll out (v.) under roll, v.
Gone to Texas 62: I’ll be a dumb blanket buck, the soldiers think all Indians with a blanket are too stupid to question.at blanket-buck (n.) under blanket, n.
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