Title: Dry rivers and standing rocks
First published: 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: 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
Places: West (U.S.)
LC classification: PE2970.W4 T48 2000