1906 A. Adams ‘In the Hands of His Friends’ in Cattle Brands 🌐 If it takes a week to turn the trick properly, good enough.at turn a trick, v.1
1906 A. Adams ‘Around the Spade Wagon’ Cattle Brands 🌐 I squeezed the hand of an alfalfa widow during a waltz.at alfalfa, adj.
1906 A. Adams ‘In the Hands of His Friends’ in Cattle Brands 🌐 Jack and his bride must have a blow-out right.at blow-out, n.1
1906 A. Adams ‘Bad Medicine’Cattle Brands 🌐 ‘I always was such a poor hand afoot that I passed up that country, and here I am a “boomer”.’ ‘Well, boom if you want,’ said Tom Roll.at boom, v.
1906 A. Adams ‘Bad Medicine’ Cattle Brands 🌐 I always was such a poor hand afoot that I passed up that country, and here I am a ‘boomer.’.at boomer, n.3
1906 A. Adams ‘In the Hands of His Friends’ in Cattle Brands 🌐 Coon Floyd’s compliments went with five cow-bells, which we always thought he rustled from a boomer’s wagon that broke down over on the Reno trail.at boomer, n.2
1906 A. Adams ‘The Double Trail’ Cattle Brands 🌐 ‘Well, we are certainly in a bad box,’ said he meditatingly.at in a box under box, n.1
1906 A. Adams ‘In the Hands of His Friends’ in Cattle Brands 🌐 Watch me build to the one inside with the black eyes. [...] As soon as we get this beef hung up I’m going in and sidle up to her.at build (up), v.
1906 A. Adams ‘The Double Trail’ Cattle Brands 🌐 If there was any one thing that he shone in, it was rustling coffin varnish during the early prohibition days along the Kansas border.at coffin varnish (n.) under coffin, n.1
1906 A. Adams ‘Bad Medicine’ Cattle Brands 🌐 [of cattle] when the rear guard of crips and dogies passed this impromptu review, we all waited patiently for the verdict.at crip, n.
1906 A. Adams ‘Rangering’ in Cattle Brands 🌐 While I was in the hospital I got my divvy of the prize money.at divvy, n.1
1906 A. Adams ‘Rangering’ in Cattle Brands 🌐 I’ll bet a twist of dog, [...] that prisoner with the black whiskers sabes English.at dog-leg (n.) under dog, n.2
1906 A. Adams ‘Seigerman’s Per Cent’ in Cattle Brands 🌐 I want you to [...] give him a big game about what a general uprising there is [...] for an efficient man for the office of sheriff.at game, n.
1906 A. Adams ‘Around the Spade Wagon’ Cattle Brands 🌐 Some geranium out there wants me to come out and shake hands, pow-wow, and make some medicine with him.at geranium, n.
1906 A. Adams ‘Drifting North’ in Cattle Brands 🌐 ‘Now, girls,’ said Baugh, addressing Carter and the stranger, ‘I’ve made you a bed out of the wagon-sheet.’.at girl, n.1
1906 A. Adams ‘Around the Spade Wagon’Cattle Brands 🌐 ‘Say [...] I have some choice old copper-distilled, sent me by a very dear friend in Kentucky.’ The goods were all he claimed for them.at goods, n.
1906 A. Adams ‘In the Hands of His Friends’ in Cattle Brands 🌐 Jack must have pictured this claim mighty hifalutin to that gal, for she’s a way up good-looker.at highfalutin, adv.
1906 A. Adams ‘In the Hands of His Friends’ in Cattle Brands 🌐 Says he will have two fiddlers, and promises us the hog killingest time of our lives.at hog-killing (time) (n.) under hog, n.
1906 A. Adams ‘The Double Trail’ Cattle Brands 🌐 Young calves, you know, make larruping fine eating for grays [i.e. wolves].at larruping, adv.
1906 A. Adams ‘The Double Trail’ Cattle Brands 🌐 Yes, tangled his feet in some vines in a sunken treetop, and the poor fellow’s light went out.at put someone’s light(s) out (v.) under light, n.
1906 A. Adams ‘In the Hands of His Friends’ in Cattle Brands 🌐 Miller, noticing it, ordered the Indian war-dance as given by the Cheyennes [...] we ki-yied as we had witnessed Lo in the dance on festive occasions.at Lo, n.1
1906 A. Adams ‘At Commanche Ford’ Cattle Brands [Internet] The horses had strayed [...] and when we found them they were cutting up as if they had been eating loco weed for a month.at locoweed, n.
1906 A. Adams ‘Around the Spade Wagon’ Cattle Brands 🌐 ‘So you think I’ve lost my number, do you?’ commented Edwards.at lose the number of one’s mess (v.) under lose, v.
1906 A. Adams ‘Around the Spade Wagon’ Cattle Brands 🌐 Some geranium out there wants me to come out and shake hands, pow-wow, and make some medicine with him.at make medicine (v.) under medicine, n.
1906 A. Adams ‘At Commanche Ford’ Cattle Brands 🌐 He was a night owl. It was nothing for him to be seen at some ranch in the evening, and the next morning be met seventy-five or eighty miles distant.at night owl, n.
1906 A. Adams ‘Drifting North’ Cattle Brands 🌐 This is no time to throw off, or refuse to be sociable.at throw off, v.
1906 A. Adams ‘Around the Spade Wagon’ Cattle Brands 🌐 These old long-horns got owly, laid their heads together, and made a little medicine.at owl-eyed (adj.) under owl, n.
1906 A. Adams ‘At Commanche Ford’ Cattle Brands 🌐 I was riding a cream-colored horse, and he was as good a one as ever was built on four pegs.at peg, n.1
1906 A. Adams ‘Rangering’ in Cattle Brands 🌐 We didn’t halt all night long on either trail, pegging along at a steady gait.at peg along (v.) under peg, v.2
1906 A. Adams ‘Rangering’ in Cattle Brands 🌐 Just then I got a plug in the shoulder, and things got dizzy and dark.at plug, n.1