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Camps in the Rockies 14: The dead ‘give away’ that was in store for the bad man.at give-away, n.
Camps in the Rockies 14: The dead ‘give away’ that was in store for the bad man. Camps in the Rockies 382: It was a remote little settlement [....] tenanted by burly pistol-girt miners, three or four ‘baching’ (bacheloring) in every hut.at bach (it), v.
Camps in the Rockies 392: Two lonely young ‘bachers’.at bacher (n.) under bach (it), v.
Camps in the Rockies 350: The numerous hanging bees’ which cleared off the most desperate element in subsequent years had not yet been introduced.at hanging bee, n.
Camps in the Rockies 62: I would donate you them ar’ four bits (fifty cents) to buy yourself one.at four bits (n.) under bit, n.1
Camps in the Rockies 94: Now that won’t wash, Sireebob; you ain’t clever enough for that.at no siree (bob)!, excl.
Camps in the Rockies 47: That thar boss bone-carpenter.at bone-bender (n.) under bone, n.1
Camps in the Rockies 8: As bad a break as ever I sees, Boss.at break, n.1
Camps in the Rockies 384: There were several characters present.at character, n.
Camps in the Rockies 19: I happened to be left alone with the now good-humouredly satiated ‘cow-puncher’.at cow-puncher, n.
Camps in the Rockies 372: I waited until a lot of Dago emigrants passed through the town.at dago, adj.1
Camps in the Rockies 7: Dog-garn them horses!at doggone, v.
Camps in the Rockies 61: Wa’al, boys, I’ll be doggarned if I won’t back you at grub-lifting against any other outfit in this yar country.at I’ll be doggoned! (excl.) under doggone, v.
Camps in the Rockies 387: The statue of ‘old Fritz‘ – Carlyle’s hero, Frederic the Great.at Fritz, n.
Camps in the Rockies 357: The crew are recruited from the detested ‘greasers,’ viz., half-breeds, or a mixture of the native Indian and imported Spaniard.at greaser, n.1
Camps in the Rockies 17: It takes moments of danger to discover a man’s true grit – the ‘bottom sand,’ as a plainsman would say.at grit, n.1
Camps in the Rockies 46: We lived exclusively, or, as the phrase is, ‘grubbed straight,’ on bread and coffee.at grub, v.1
Camps in the Rockies 60: The fellow was a Hoosier (native of Indiana).at hoosier, n.
Camps in the Rockies 382: Using the ‘Jerusalem Overtaker’ – as he calls the remnant of a toothcomb.at Jerusalem overtaker (n.) under Jerusalem, adj.
Camps in the Rockies 60: By the jumping Moses, you’ve been and gone done it!at jumping Moses!, excl.
Camps in the Rockies 6: I knew too much of Western ‘tangle-leg’ and its vile poisonous qualities.at tangle-leg, n.
Camps in the Rockies 126: The forest soon ‘pettered out’ into detached patches.at peter out, v.
Camps in the Rockies 27: It is at least some satisfaction to know that if one does get ‘rubbed out’ the person who accomplishes it will have the same happen to him.at rub out, v.
Camps in the Rockies 1: ‘Outfit’ [...] is an expressive Western term, covering every imaginable human, animate, and in animate being or article. The Missourian speaks of his wife and little ones as the outfit he left behind him when he came West.at outfit, n.1
Camps in the Rockies 9: The frontiersman calls them, as we have heard, ‘top-shelfers’; they are accompanied by their servants from England.at top-shelfer, n.
Camps in the Rockies 383: You’d better skin (leave).at skin, v.3
Camps in the Rockies 147: The boy paid me the compliment that, for a ‘tenderfoot,’ I had done ‘mighty well.’.at tenderfoot (n.) under tender, adj.
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