American Regionalisms,
Ethnic and Social Dialects--
The Desert Southwest:
A Citation List
Compiled by
Martin Kich
English Department
Wright State University-Lake Campus
Adams, Ramon F. Cowboy Lingo. Boston: Houghton, 2000.
--. Western Words: The Cowboy Dictionary: The Chin Jaw Words and Whing-Ding Ways of the American West. New York: Perigree, 1993.
---. Western Words: A Dictionary of the American West. Norman, OK: U of Oklahoma P, 1968.
Bentley, Harold W. A Dictionary of Spanish Terms in English, with Special Reference to the American Southwest. New York: Columbia UP, 1932.
Blevins, Winfred. Dictionary of the American West. New York: Facts on File, 1993.
Grant, Bruce. The Cowboy Encyclopedia: The Old and the New West from the Open Range to the Dude Ranch. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1951.
Hendrickson, Robert. Happy Trails: A Dictionary of Western Expressions. New York: Facts on File, 1994.
Pearce, T. M. "The English Language in the Southwest." New Mexico Historical Review 7(July 1932): 210-232.
---. "The Southwestern Word Box." New Mexico Quarterly 2(Nov. 1932): 340-344.
Ryder, Tex S. Cowboy-English/English-Cowboy Dictionary. New York: Ballantine, 1982.
Thybony, Scott. Dry Rivers and Standing Rocks: A Word Finder for the American West. Albuquerque, NM: U of New Mexico P, 2000.