A Western Canadian Dictionary and Phrasebook: Picturesque Language of the Cowboy and the Broncho-BusterThis amusing little dictionary, originally printed in Winnipeg in 1913, serves up the slang spoken in the West at the beginning of the century. |
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Alberta American applied boost boys British Columbia bunch called Cana Canada Canadian Northern Railway cattle chokecherry common Country cowboy described dian district dollar Dominion dope drink drive drunk ence exclamation expression farm feet fire fool play frequently Go Dutch hand homestead horses Hudson Bay Hudson's Bay Company immigrant John Sandilands known land logs lumber camp lumber mills lumberjack Manitoba meal means ment moccasins Mountains new-comer Nigger noun Old-Country origin party person phrase prairie Province railway ranch Red River Red River Settlement reference Saskatchewan Scalp Shivaree skin sleigh snow sometimes sport square story street swindle teetotal term there's thing ticket timber tion toadskin town trade trail train tree tribe of Indians University of Alberta usually verb West Western Canadian Dictionary wild Winnipeg winter word