Cowboys had a lot to say...that is if anyone would take the time to listen to them! This page is dedicated to those "dudes" who had more smarts and quotes that we gave them credit for!
Let (a centipede) walk across your hand undisturbed, and he leaves a highly inflamed track. Hit him during that march, and he will sink those hundred fangs into your flesh, and it will rot away and drop from the bones.
The prairie dog is the squirrel of the Plains
Boating on the Gila (river) was definitely not to be recommendded...
Get a box of sand and in one corner put a thimbleful of water and in the other a horned toad and you have Arizona.
Smile, you don't have to stay here but we do.
Arizona's Five C's - Cotton, Cattle, Copper, Citrus, Climate.
There's the man you're looking for.
Everything was done to make Cody conceited and unbearable, but he remained the simple, unassuming child of the plains.
I was considered the most reckless and daring rider and one of the best shots in the western country.
You are a good person to have around in time of calamity, and I now christen you 'Calamity Jane', heroine of the plains.
The saddle of the cowboy is the first, last and most important part of his outfit.
Cowboy proverbs...
The cowboy is just a plain, everyday bow-legged human, carefree and courageous, fun-loving and loyal, uncomplaining and doing his best to live up to a tradition of which he is proud.
This is a good day to die. Follow me.
Queen City of the Plains
There have been, during my two weeks sojourn, more brawls, more fights, more pistol shots with criminal intent in this log city (Denver) of one hundred and fifty dwellings, not three-fourths completed, nor two-thirds inhabited, nor one-third fit to be, than in any community of no greater numbers on earth.
Cash. Why they create it here.
These quotes were copied out of Richard Dillon's book "Western Quotations." This page is not infringing upon the copyrights of the publishers, but is merely posting these for the enjoyment of fans.
Animals
~Charles F. Lummis
~ Walter P. Webb
Arizona
~Lt. George Stoneman 1846
~Herbert R. Hislop 1876
~sign on a station in Salome, Arizona
~unknown
Buffalo Bill
~Frank North
~Victor Weybright
Calmity Jane
~Calamity Jane
~Capt. Pat Eagan after she rescued him from an Indian attack
Cliches
End of the trail.
Gone West.
Crossed the Divide.
Hell bend for leather.
Whip his weight in wild cats.
Back in the saddle again.
Saddle up and hit the trail.
We'll give them a fair trial - and then we'll hang them.
Cowboys
~E. Hough
~The toughest broncs is them you've rode some other place.
~A windy is a feller hunting grizzly bears in camp.
~Down to chili and beans.
~You get so dry you have to be primed to spit.
~Ramon F. Adams
Custer's Last Stand
~Low Dog at Custer's Last Stand June 25, 1876
Denver
~Horace Greeley 1860
~Walt Whitman 1879
