{"product_id":"9780692214190","title":"Dictionary of the American West: Over 5,000 Terms and Expressions from AARIGAA! to Zopilote","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Win Blevins has long since won his place among the West's very best.\" - Tony Hillerman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the first time, The 'Dictionary of the American West' includes all the voices of America's richly woven history of the West: Women, Mormons, Hispanics, Blacks, French-Canadians, mountain men, half-bloods, immigrants, cowboys, and missionaries--to show how western speech is actually a riotous mix of cultures and languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncluded are Spanish, Indian Pidgin English, and Chinook trade jargon. That's why words like 'tortilla', 'simpatico', 'bourgeois' and 'muckamuck' have become as much a part of American parlance as dogie, salty dog, smart-aleck, and grub.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong the thousands of carefully researched definitions, the reader will find the meaning of 'buck nun' \u0026amp; to 'ride circle;' as well as American Indian words such as 'sun dance', 'kachina' \u0026amp; 'medicine pipe'. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is essential for anyone with an interest in the American West, in its history, facts \u0026amp; fables, idioms \u0026amp; mores.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHighly informative and endlessly entertaining, and accompanied by black-and-white illustrations, the Dictionary of the American West explains more than 5,000 terms and expressions in passages that pack a crossbuck saddle's worth of American frontier history and wit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWin Blevins is an American author of historical fiction, narrative non-fiction, historical fantasy, and non-fiction books, as well as short stories, novellas, articles, reviews, and screenplays. He has written many books about the western mountain trappers, and is known for his \"mastery of western lore.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis notable works include Stone Song, So Wild a Dream, and Dictionary of the American West. According to WorldCat, the Dictionary of the American West is held in 728 libraries. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlevins has won numerous awards, including being named winner of the Owen Wister Award for Lifetime Achievement in writing literature of the West, being selected for the Western Writers Hall of Fame, being twice named 'Writer of the Year' by Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers, and winning two Spur Awards for Best Novel of the West.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WordWorx Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49997243613424,"sku":"9780692214190","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780692214190_p0.jpg?v=1784236183","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780692214190","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}