1844 G.W. Kendall Narrative of Texan Santa Fe Expedition I 107: The crack-jaw name of some Indian brave.at jaw-breaking, adj.
1844 G.W. Kendall Narrative of Texan Santa Fe Expedition I 133: Captain Caldwell [...] remarked to his men, in a low tone and in English, that ‘these fellows looked ugly and fighty’.at fighty, adj.
1844 G.W. Kendall Narrative of Texan Santa Fe Expedition I 62: The time was when I could cut pigeon wings, and perform the double shuffle with precision and activity; but those days are over now — the jig is up.at jig, n.2
1844 G.W. Kendall Narrative of Texan Santa Fe Expedition I 28: Your Englishman ‘makes a muss’ about it, and growls his dissatisfaction.at raise a muss (v.) under muss, n.
1844 G.W. Kendall Narrative of Texan Santa Fe Expedition II 28: Ochoa was frank and [...] expressed the greatest abhorrence of Salezar and his herd of ladrones and picaros* as he called them (*loafers, scoundrels, thieves).at picaroon, n.