1850 C.L. Canfield Diary of a Forty-Niner (1906) 18: It makes a lot of difference having a pard with you. [Ibid.] 17 Nov. 35: Pard is all right again, thank the Lord.at pard, n.
1851 C.L. Canfield Diary of a Forty-Niner (1906) 74: He said he did not feel like having a stag blowout.at blow-out, n.1
1851 C.L. Canfield Diary of a Forty-Niner (1906) 104: He had shaved his beard [...] and was dressed up in a ‘biled shirt’.at boiled shirt (n.) under boiled, adj.
1851 C.L. Canfield The Diary of a Forty-Niner (1906) 103: Pard went to Frisco early in the week.at ’Frisco, n.
1851 C.L. Canfield Diary of a Forty-Niner (1906) 58: I have had to stand a lot of joshing from pard.at josh, v.
1851 C.L. Canfield Diary of a Forty-Niner (1906) 95: She is telling everybody that she has given me the mitten.at give someone the mitten (v.) under mitten, n.
1851 C.L. Canfield Diary of a Forty-Niner (1906) 85: Our claim is pretty nearly played out.at played (out), adj.
1851 C.L. Canfield Diary of a Forty-Niner (1906) 74: I coaxed Anderson to go along; said he did not feel like having a stag blowout; rather have a pasear with Jack over on the river.at stag, adj.
1851 C.L. Canfield Diary of a Forty-Niner (1906) 95: The town turned out to see the fun and I could hear them yell: ‘Go it, Yank.’.at Yank, n.
1852 C.L. Canfield Diary of a Forty-Niner (1906) 211: The miners’ actions are generally endorsed and there is a disposition to bar the Chinks out of the district.at Chink, n.
1852 C.L. Canfield Diary of a Forty-Niner (1906) 175: That settled it. He had his hat off, and ‘he’ was a woman dead sure.at dead, adv.
1852 C.L. Canfield Diary of a Forty-Niner (1906) 178: Am I not better employed [...] beating law into the skull of a thick-headed judge, who don’t know Blackstone from white quartz?at thick-headed, adj.
1852 C.L. Canfield Diary of a Forty-Niner (1906) 192: I followed suit with the shotgun and pistol. We both stood in the door and when they rode up they saw we were heeled.at heeled, adj.
1852 C.L. Canfield Diary of a Forty-Niner (1906) 143: He bought his rum by the gallon and kept soaked all the time. Tuesday night he had a bad attack of the jim-jams.at jim-jams, n.
1852 C.L. Canfield Diary of a Forty-Niner (1906) 185: They were mean enough to search her [...] Sure enough they found six slugs (fifty dollars each) in her stockings, which they confiscated.at slug, n.1
1852 C.L. Canfield Diary of a Forty-Niner (1906) 143: He bought his rum by the gallon and kept soaked all the time. Tuesday night he had a bad attack of the jim-jams.at soaked, adj.
1852 C.L. Canfield Diary of a Forty-Niner (1906) 170: The crowd agreed it was pretty tough on Jim and proceeded to help him forget it by ordering drinks all round.at tough on under tough, adj.
1902 C.L. Canfield Diary of a Forty-Niner (1906) 193: [footnote] He associated himself with Rattlesnake Dick and three others and started out as a full-fledged ‘road agent.’ The band held together until 1853.at road-agent (n.) under road, n.