A visual dictionary of the Old West that focuses on the life of cowboys, western settlers, boomtowns, and the gold rush.

This book, originally published in 1944, has 5,000 words of cowboy language as vibrant now as it was in the old American frontier. The native cowman forged his

The hybrid language of the frontier is revealed in this compilation of terms used by the cattlemen, frontiersmen, scouts, cowboys, and gamblers.

Did you ever need to spell “dogie” (as in, get-along-little), or need to know what a “sakey” is? This is the book that can tell you how to spell, pronou

Information about the people, places, and events of America's Old West is enlightened with hundreds of vintage photographs and portraits