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Cowboy Slang: Colorful Cowboy Sayings

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Edgar "Frosty" Potter has put together an excellent compilation cowboy slang. This book is chock full of amusing phrases such as: "He's as slow actin' as wet gunpowder" and "Hot words lead to cold slabs." This book is a MUST, for anyone looking to spice up their written dialog with amusing phrases, or for any fan of the cowboy/western genre in general.

Unlike other books, with the same theme, this is a book of phrases, arranged in a logical concise order. Several amusing illustrations are scattered throughout.

This is a small [128-page] "dictionary" listing words or phrases that cowboys do use, did use, or might have used. Like most slang and old colloquial language that does not have much of a written record, there is not much about origins, simply because there is no way to find them. Not listing origins is better than making them up!

I don't know whether to call this cutesy or juvenile, but it was definitely not informative. The "slang" was not historical, but the kind of stuff you hear on old westerns. Some real information on brands, cattle, and horses was interesting, but not very in-depth.

Not a book for adults, but small children might be amused.

I bought this to add color to a character I am creating. I found it very well suited to that purpose and it has adorned my bathroom ever since providing daily laughs.

If you're writing a Western and want some spicy language to make your dialogue sound authentic, then this is the book for you!
However, it reads like a dictionary, and unfortunately doesn't give any detail on the origin of any of the strange cowboy phrases.

This book is mostly just a list of phrases without any information about context, historical source, usage, explanations, etc. It is pretty useless as such and does not provide anything useful to the layman. Very disappointing. I thought it would be funny and interesting and provide explanations for phrases but it is just a list, and a pretty lame one at that too.