advertising a leather shop: Said of a tenderfoot dressed up in exaggerated leather "trimmin's," such as boots, chaps, cowhide vest, leather cuffs, etc....
couldn't ride nothin' wilder'n a wheel chair: A cowboy's phrase for a man with no riding ability.
gummers: Old sheep that have lost their teeth.
KILL: See bed him down, blow out his lamp, curl him up, curl his tail, 'dobe wall, downed, dry-gulch, got a halo gratis, Green River, kicked into a funeral procession, land in a shallow grave, made wolf meat, man for breakfast, Pecos, salivate, sarve up brown, sawdust in his beard, strapped on his horse toes down, wipe out.
Roll out! Breakfast on the boards!: A cook's call for breakfast in a logging camp.
tame ape: An early-day term for a logger.
drilled her deep enough: What the Cornish miner says when he quits.
From Western Words: A Dictionary of the American West (1968). Ramon F. Adams
Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut
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