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| #756083 in Books | Mariner Books | 2000-11-20 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.25 x.62 x5.50l,.60 | File type: PDF | 272 pages | ||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Enjoyable book, very nicely organized|By Charles Hall|This book is fun. The lingo is grouped by subject, like "cattle", "horses", etc. There's lots of cowboy words explained with an entertaining mix of cowboy aphorisms sprinkled in.
Two things stuck out. Almost all the words relating to cows and horses are of Spanish origin, and if you grew up watching Westerns on TV|.com |"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
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 today’s foreign lan...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Cowboy Lingo | Ramon F. Adams. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
