Old West Words and Phrases

[Silver Creek Slim]

Bazoo - Time for bed for this one.  Slim gave us too easy a clue:  can we say mouth!

2 for 2, Griff. 

Slim

[Silver Creek Slim]

How 'bout this these?
fire pony
hep

Slim

[Russ T Chambers]

How 'bout this these?
fire pony
hep

Slim

Hep

Would that be like "Hep me!  Hep me!  I'z stuck in quicksand" 

[Silver Creek Slim]

How 'bout this these?
fire pony
hep

Slim

Hep

Would that be like "Hep me!  Hep me!  I'z stuck in quicksand" 

Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuh. Nope!

Slim

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Fire pony= fast horse?............Buck

[Silver Creek Slim]

Fire pony= fast horse?............Buck

Nope, try again.
Both of these terms I got from an article written by a famous buff runner.

Slim

[Griff]

Fire pony = pony you'd actually fire from

hep = Hop, as in Hep on up here. 

[Silver Creek Slim]

We've had some good guesses here. I'll put them out of our misery.

I was just returning to camp when I thought I saw some low moving objects topping a hill rise beyond the horses. I had Mac's rifle along with a good 'scope, 10-power. I crawled to another hilltop, took a look through the 'scope. I made out two objects. The first was half a dozen bucks, crawling like snakes to a vantage point that would command our camp. The other was three bucks busily engaged in lashing a big quantity of grass and dry brush on the back of a miserable pony, just the other side of the hill, out of sight of our camp. At the time I didn't understand the pony business; but I knew that the crawling bucks were up to no good. I crawled down the hill, hotfooted it to camp, told McRae what I'd seen.

He was hep to the whole game.

"That's a fire pony," he explained. "They're going to set fire to the pony's load (grass), when it's dark enough, and drive it into our horse herd and stampede the whole bunch; then they'll pick off what they can of us."

From The Buffalo Harvest by Frank H. Mayer with Charles B. Roth

hep - a variant of hip. Keenly aware of or knowledgeable about the latest trends or developments.

Slim

[Capt. Hamp Cox]

Also short for this:


A Remington Hepburn.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Also short for this:



A Remington Hepburn.

Slim

[Capt. Hamp Cox]

Also short for this:



A Remington Hepburn.

Slim

Whatchew grinnin' 'bout?

[Capt. Hamp Cox]

I ain't been postin' no "X" rated pitchures.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Also short for this:



A Remington Hepburn.

Slim

Whatchew grinnin' 'bout?

'Cuz I'd like ta own one and call it that.

Slim

[Capt. Hamp Cox]

You an' me too.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Got a friend on another board that has one. Beautiful piece.....Buck

[Capt. Hamp Cox]

Pickin' up an original M1873 Springfield rifle from an ailin' friend tomorrow.  Finally gonna try my hand at BPCR.  Already have a contempory .45-70, so have the dies.  Also got Wolf's book on how to make one shoot like they were intended, with BP.

[litl rooster]

Slim, that's an interesting story on the Fire pony.....

[Silver Creek Slim]

Slim, that's an interesting story on the Fire pony.....

I thought so too. It was the first time I had heard of such a thing being done.

Slim

[litl rooster]

Well they claimed the Apache would ride them till they played out kill'em then eat them but, didn't know they'd cook them first.

[Backstrap Bill]

Can  any one tell me what "Slutting A Gut" means?

I found the phrase in a western novel written in 1954.  Context is, 'getting the wagon across that river was easier that slutting a gut'.