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The cowboy that enigmatic, larger-than-life icon of our culture

has long been considered a figure of fast hands, steel nerves, and

few words. But according to Ramon Adams, cowboys, once among

themselves, enjoyed a vivid, often boisterous repartee. You might

say that around a campfire they could make more noise than a

jackass in a tin barn. Here in one volume is a complete guide to

cowboy-speak. Like many of todays foreign language guides, this

handy book is organized not alphabetically but situationally, lest

you find yourself in Texas at a loss for words. There are sections

on the ranch, the cowboys duties, riding equipment, the roundup,

roping, branding, even square dancing. There are words and phrases

youll recognize because theyve filtered into everyday language blue

lightnin, star gazin, the whole shebang plus countless others that,

sadly, are seldom heard in current speech: lonely as a preacher on

pay night, restless as a hen on a hot griddle, crooked as a snake

in a cactus patch. As entertaining as it is authoritative, COWBOY

LINGO captures the living speech of the Great Plains and serves as

a window into the soul of the American West.

Forewvord by Elmer Kelton

Introduction

THE CowBoY AND HIS LINGO

THE RANCH

THE COWBOY AND Hxs DUTIES

HIS COSTUME AND FURNISHINGS

HIS RIDING EQUIPMENT

ROPES AND ROPING

CATTLE

HORSES

RIDING

THE ROUND-UP

BRANDS AND EAR-MARKS

THE TRAIL

THE COMMISSARY

RUSTLERS AND OUTLAWS

Ramon F. Adams (1889-1976) was an American cowboy, a musician, a

folklorist, and the author of numerous books on western

Americana.

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"The cowboy was not a highly educated man as a rule," says Ramon

F. Adams in his introduction to Cowboy Lingo, "but he never

lacked for expression." After years of keeping his own notes on the

"terse, crisp, clear-cut language of the range," Adams decided that

it would be "selfish" not to pass them along. Thus was born

Cowboy Lingo, which was first published by Houghton Mifflin

in 1936 and appears now after being long out of print. Adams's book

is arranged thematically--with chapters on ropes, cattle, brands,

the trail, outlaws, and the like--telling as much about the life of

the cowboy (or cow-puncher or buckaroo or

ranahan or saddle-slicker or waddie) as about

his language. As might be expected from a pioneer of the western

range, the cowboy "respected neither the dictionary nor usage,"

says Adams, "but employed his words in the manner that best suited

him." And perhaps no other group has come up with a better

collection of insults. A bad tracker "couldn't find a calf with a

bell on in a corral"; a worthless person's "family tree was a

scrub"; and an ignorant person "couldn't drive nails in a snow

bank." Great fodder for word mavens, writers of Western fiction,

and Wild West enthusiasts alike.  (Amazon.com Review -Jane

Steinberg )