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Dry rivers and standing rocks

a word finder for the American West

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An edition of Dry rivers and standing rocks (2000)

Dry rivers and standing rocks

a word finder for the American West

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"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.

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University of New Mexico Press
Language
English
Pages
104

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Subjects
Languages, Americanisms, Dialects, Western stories, Dictionaries, English language, Glossaries, vocabularies, Authorship, Terminology, West (u.s.), description and travel, English language, synonyms and antonyms, English language, dialects, united states, English language, glossaries, vocabularies, etc., West (u.s.), in literature
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 94-101) and index.

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Albuquerque
Genre
Dictionaries.

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427/.978
Library of Congress
PE2970.W4 T48 2000, PE2970.W4T48 2000, PE 2970 W4 T48 2000

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104 p. :
Number of pages
104

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OL6775937M
ISBN 10
0826322603, 0826322611
LCCN
00008471
OCLC/WorldCat
43569211
Library Thing
144475
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3636982
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