Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-11-27
Western Names aud Phrases.

The writer has within the last ten |
ears mined in nearly every mining |
amp in the United States, from Penn
ylvania to California, thence to Oregon,
Territory and British Co
umbia, on the Frazer River and in Carl
100, and being something of rowing
abinet and observer, he has picked up
nd stored away, from time to tine,
James and phrases which he now pro-
'oses to work into a sort of machine
poetry, taking unto himself all the poet
cal license allowable in this advanced
lge of frontier poets and dizzy rhyme
tiers.
FOLLOW THE TRAIL, IRIS RED HOT.
From Hell's Delight to Smuggler's Bar,
Across Blue Gap to Hungry Bear.
From Roaring Camp we take the car
To Methodist and Never Swear,
Tip Top, Black Jack, The VOLTS Retreat,
Near Roaring Fork where Lone Jack struck 1t,
And thence to Hangtown, Wake up Pete,
And Let Her Rip, to Nip and Tuckit
Now, Go Ahead, Take In, Freewill,
Long Pail, it's true, from Nothing Doing
Don't Flicker Out at Bottle Hill,
For Whisky Ranch is cross Blue Ruin.
Then strike the trail Of Tim Buck Too
Go Up the Flume to Hill o. Quaker
Through Hot Divide and Wandering Jew
To DEVILS Ride, hear HelPs Half Acre.
slumgullionville, Lookout Mud Springs.
And Lousy Ridge, are near Coon's Hollow
Cross Bloody Run and Smash-Up Bridge,
Dead Beat, Dead Broke and Bottom Dollar.
Drive slow across the Angels Swamp,
Let Slippery Jack, Hard Up for game,
Turn loose when near the Gipsie's Camp,
And Murderer's Barr, near Sailed Claim,
Leave Red Dog, Gouge Eye Out o. Sight,
49, Lost Cabins where you'll near the story
How Poker Pete from Helfs Delight,
Broke Six-1oed Bill, of Ground Hog glory.
How Tom The Top, from Bitter Pill,
Addressed Pug Jake as Mistah Speakah.
They doused his glim at Dismal HiD,
And Slugvile people cried Eureka!
Then Monte joe from Lady's Vail,
Crossed Niger Gulch by Greenhorn Cuto6
Through Badger Hole, DER Bull Dog Trail.
lear Jackson, at the mouth OF Shutof
We Fly Away, past He'll Town Claim,
Stop Short, Last Chance, now What's the
Matter?
Why, Muggins Tom, while dying game,
Turned Loose Cold Lead at every clatter.
Now Skin Her Out toward Last Jump,
Cnch Up while passing Rancheree,
Or Two To One you'll Turp Up stump
At Robbers Roost or Climb Tree.
TaEantulas Nest is Just Hard By,
Here Jackum's Band cleaned out The Babble,
While LOng-Necked Dick and old Bill I've
Used BoOmerangs, without Hardscrabble.
Sill further on we Wake Up Jake
To Set EN- Up at Dead Coyote,
Wen have Free Lunch on Rattlesnake,
And good Rawhide from Minnesota.-(Bar)
Down Moccasin to Dismal Heights,
To Hornets Nest and Horned Toad Level,
Where Skin Flint Sam preached Woman's
Rights,
And always played to beat The Devil
But let us from old Shasta's heights
Look down, recall some names now dying.
From Gas Point to Three Red Lights
Near Fifer's HILL while underlying
Is Fly Blow, Hy-Yu, Take the Socks,
To Soap Springs, where, on Mad Mule Go,
At Horsetown, Dog Creek, and Mad OK,
Where lives Nike Finch, the boss of Sligo.
In Trinity you'll find Blue Bells.
Big Flat can boast of Golden City,
Near Newtons Fork, where Buckshot tells
How Slap-Jack Jake plugged Little Schmidty
The Forty-Niners went it blind,
And planted names in curious order,
And that is why you'll Never Find
Much classic iargon on the border.
30 Let 'Er Pass-we'll shoot Wild Cat
With Moonshine, near to Miners Glory,
And drink Old Port at Poker Flat,
Near Shady Grove and Root Hog Canyon,
Where Kansas Kit oft told the story
OF Pbantom's Slide, The Scouts Retreat,
Where Grizzly Jake oft bagged his meat
Panion.
But here must " collapse" "subside,"
Walk up TO Ran-ta-dod-lar bar.
The reason Dry Up City died
Because the Bed Rock was 100 far.
30 pll dry up-and well you may.
Thank you my friend, but Mary's lamb
OH shoot the lambi All right, Fairplay,
And you may 60 to- Yuba Dam.
Laramie Boomerang.