In Old Arizona: True Tales of the Wild Frontier

Trimble has a real depth of knowledge of Arizona history and he really knows how to write about it in an entertaining way. I loved this book.

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.

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!