Old West Words and Phrases

[Silver Creek Slim]

fox fire - tie a torch to the tail of a fox and let it go in the grasslands

Slim

[Silver Creek Slim]

Here's one fer ya.
Leather burner

Slim

[Delmonico]

Most cowboy/chuckwagon puddin's are suet, but not all.  I need to do some work in this area, plan to take that project up after the first of the year, if ya lived closer Slim ya could come help with the taste testin'.

Leather burner can either be someone who rides long distance or someone who breaks horses.

The only Fox Fire I know of is dem books from back east and the glowy stuff from rotten wood.

[Russ T Chambers]

Sob in a sack is a boiled or steamed puddin' in a sack.  This is a bead or flour based puddin' not a cornstarch based puddin' like Bill Cosby was always peddlein'.

The version I heard of was dried fruit wrapped in dough then steeamed.

Fox fire  --  glow on the horns of cattle during an electrical storm. 

[Silver Creek Slim]

Most cowboy/chuckwagon puddin's are suet, but not all.  I need to do some work in this area, plan to take that project up after the first of the year, if ya lived closer Slim ya could come help with the taste testin'.

Leather burner can either be someone who rides long distance or someone who breaks horses.

The only Fox Fire I know of is dem books from back east and the glowy stuff from rotten wood.

My Dad's family (English) always has Suet Pudding for Christmas. Ya can bring some to the convention. 

I'z looking fer something else fer Leather Burner. One of Hoppy's movies is titled "Leather Burners". I just watched it the other night. 

Slim

[Delmonico]

Most chuckwagons did not seem to carry a pudin' mould so they often made what ever variation the cook prefered in a sack, my reseach says any boiled or steamed puddin' in a puddin' cloth was a sob in a sack.

The leather burner could also be a runnin' iron expert, fergot that one, since Slim is in on it more than likely, fergot that one.   

Just like to day, words change their meanin.'  A gay cowboy today ain't what a gay cowboy would have been around 1900. 

The horn thing I've always seen referances to that bein' St' Elmo's fire, but no doubt fox fire would have been used also since it would resemble the rotten wood kind.

Even the word cowboy has changed, an old fella who would accept that term in 1899 might have shot you for callin' him one in 1861.  Fact is any good patreeeout durnin' the revalooontion would have shot a "

[Silver Creek Slim]

The leather burner could also be a runnin' iron expert, fergot that one, since Slim is in on it more than likely, fergot that one.   

That's the one I was looking fer. 

Slim

[Delmonico]

cowboy, cause that was a loyalist that stole cattle from patriots.  

That was wierd I wasn't fisnished with this post, went upstairs to do some things and it was posted.

Was that durn cat playin' with the mouse?

[Silver Creek Slim]

cowboy, cause that was a loyalist that stole cattle from patriots.  

That was wierd I wasn't fisnished with this post, went upstairs to do some things and it was posted.

Was that durn cat playin' with the mouse?

I wouldn't doubt. That is probably why cat aren't allowed at the office. 

Slim

[Capt. Hamp Cox]

Russ T was right with:

stripper = buffalo skinner

fox fire = glow on the horns of cattle during an electrical storm

[Capt. Hamp Cox]

chigaderos

red ink

walkin'-beamin'

as useless as a twenty-two cartridge in an 8-gauge shotgun  (Slim, don't take this one personal)

[Delmonico]

chigaderos is tabaccy rolled up in a cornhusk and smoked.

ussless as a 22 in a 8 gauge, not much good.

[Silver Creek Slim]

as useless as a twenty-two cartridge in an 8-gauge shotgun  (Slim, don't take this one personal)

Whatcha mean by that?!?!   


Slim

[Capt. Hamp Cox]

chigaderos is tabaccy rolled up in a cornhusk and smoked.

ussless as a 22 in a 8 gauge, not much good.

Del's right with the second one, but wrong with the first.

chigaderos, chinkaderos, and armitas are all names for variations of early chaps.

Someone needs to take a shot at:

red ink

walkin'-beamin'

[Silver Creek Slim]

red ink - being over budget

Slim

[Russ T Chambers]

chigaderos is tabaccy rolled up in a cornhusk and smoked.

ussless as a 22 in a 8 gauge, not much good.

Del's right with the second one, but wrong with the first.

chigaderos, chinkaderos, and armitas are all names for variations of early chaps.

Someone needs to take a shot at:

red ink

walkin'-beamin'

Red ink ---  Whiskey

[Capt. Hamp Cox]

Slim's wrong and that little feller, Russ T, is right.

red ink ~ whiskey

[Silver Creek Slim]

red signal oil

Slim

[Delmonico]

calf slobber

[Silver Creek Slim]

calf slobber

Nope. There is no such thing. It was used in a Hoppy movie to play a trick on California. 

Slim