Dry rivers and standing rocks
a word finder for the American West
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
2000 - University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Language
English
Word Count
26,000 words, Guess
Page Count
104 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL6775937M
- ISBN-100826322603
- OCLC Control Number43569211
- Library of Congress Control Number00008471
- LibraryThing144475
and 1 more
- Goodreads3636982
Classifications
- DDC427/.978
- LCCPE2970.W4 T48 2000
Description
"Scott Thybony started a file of western words. He ended up with a list of western place names, cowboyisms, American Indian words on permanent loan, Spanish terms, a sprinkling of Arabic, some scientific terms, and an assortment of random coinings, borrowings, and outright expropriations.". "It looks like a reference book and reads like poetry. Readers, teachers, hikers, cartographers, even crossword puzzlers will love it. Neither scholarly nor comprehensive, this is a collection to make you think. It contains paired words like standing rock, grafts like snaggletooth, loners like hoodoo. It recharges the familiar in focusing on a word like yonder, which the author describes poignantly as "compressing the history of the West into a single longing.""--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
Topics
Places
Genres
- Dictionaries.
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