Western Words: A Dictionary of the Old West Available to Purchase

The University of Oklahoma Press at Norman, Oklahoma, is our main source of many hundreds of authoritative and fascinating books about the legendary Moving Frontier of the American Wild West, land of cowboys and Indians, desperadoes and lawmen, of “old‐timers who used the saddle for a workbench in making history”. Now Hippocrene Books makes a popular Oklahoma title available in facsimile paperback reprint, at a modest price.

Ramon F. Adams devoted most of his life to compiling, at first hand, this informative, often amusing lexicon of the “plumb frolicsome” speech of cowmen in their native haunts. “Within the cowman’s figures...