Old West slang

Please take a look at the following website…

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~poindexterfamily/OldWestSlang.html

This is a very useful and amusing website for any history buff or novelist! The phrases are reminiscent of years past! If you write stories, you can certainly add flavor by knowing these phrases and what they mean. I recognized many that my late Uncle used and some that are still used today. There are many that I did not know. 

It would be great fun to use the slang on all ages and catalog the results. For instance, an older gentleman might remember Arbuckle’s and a younger fellow might say, “Oh, you mean Java!” Someone “to ride the river with” back then, might be a “Mac Daddy” now.  

If re-introduced into the modern world, there might be a new trend in slang. A completion of a circle you might say. One might bring back an old trend in slang like an old trend in fashion.