Dry rivers and standing rocks
Subtitle: a word finder for the American West
By: by Scott Thybony.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
Subjects: English language -- Dialects -- West (U.S.) -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.; Western stories -- Authorship.; Americanisms -- West (U.S.); West (U.S.) -- Languages -- Dictionaries.; West (U.S.) -- Terminology.
Genres: Dictionaries.
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 94-101) and index.