cursing in the old west

Culled straight from my Franklin Daytimer, it contains actual journal entries, laid out raw and uncensored. The wife and I actually got married in the comstock life, Virginia City.
But I digress), I was surprised to hear him say, "I'm gonna blow your fucking head off."

My grandkids have never heard me swear and if I do my job right, they never will.

And, by the way, I’m an insomniac. Trail cooks suggested, none too politely, that we should quit our bellyaching. It overturned the cart and galloped away, destroying the farmer's produce. I’m going whole hog (all the way) to paint my tonsils (drink) until I’m roostered (extremely drunk) and snapped (thoroughly drunk), so spread out a general treat (a free round) of pop skull (whiskey), jack of diamonds (whiskey), prairie dew (whiskey), and rebel soldier (whiskey) for these here lushingtons (fellow drinkers). Finding written proof of vulgarities and swear words on paper -- a telegraph, journal, letter, land deed - is a fool's quest. "Allow me a moment's silence, Mr. Hearst, sir," E.B.

Heard the ball is in motion. “Rants from the Hill” are Michael Branch’s monthly musings on life in the high country of western Nevada’s Great Basin Desert. Perhaps, at this anxious moment, as we engage in repast, awaiting the curtain to draw on the "Deadwood" movie, we should engage in a discussion of other 19th century linquistic anachronisms from Oregon. (I’m powerful as a big storm and dangerous to feeble, overdressed ass kissers like you. "Skinny as a sack of deer horns": A thin girl. I learned a lot in that first week of living with the swear jar. As I began to lamp that if I didn’t mend my ways and hobble my latchpan I was going to be in for it, I fetched up on the idea of just blathering western all the time. But Swearingen was quite the trendsetter. After a decade in the wilderness, I don't know what I'm more excited about: Seeing Mr. Wu's pigs once again dispose of the Old West's detritus or hearing the curlicue 1870s language that made the TV series so brilliant. And finally, for all you who think the potty mouths on "Deadwood" are innaccurate, there's this: Once and for all, did the miners and gamblers in Deadwood talk as profanely as David Milch has portrayed them in his fictional HBO series, "Deadwood"?

Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. I don't think those were used, for the most part (although the "f" word was). . This struck me as a low point in the history of human communication.

Entertaining and informative.

And even rough-hewn miners and cowboys held their tongues a tad around a lady. In the political broadside, James W. Nesmith calls provisional government Justice J. Quinn Thornton "a reclaimless liar, an infamous scoundrel, a blackhearted villain, an arrant coward, a worthless vagabond, and an imported miscreant. Frontier historians, including scholars living and researching in Oregon, will certainly be listening as much as they're watching.

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Liquor me on sheep dip (pour me whiskey) until I’ve a brick in my hat (am unthinkably drunk) and I wake with roaring case of barrel fever (a massive hangover)! “Are you shitting me?” I asked in shocked reply. These urchins are not all of that peculiar class known as "hoodlums" for whom ignorance is some excuse, as many of them receive the kindest and best instruction at home, but from too lenient parents who allow their children to wander through the city, visiting haunts of iniquity where are exerted those pernicious influences which sooner or later deaden the most acute sensibility, destroy all sense of right and morality and inspire to an emulation of the worst characters of the town. And why should I apologize for having forgotten something when I might instead say that I disremembered it—a term that is more honest, since my selective memory is actually a subversive form of passive resistance. So that term probably would not have been used in Deadwood in the 19th Century. I’m reverent as a kedge gully washer and death on slimsey, rag-propered lickfingers like you.

Of course it might be just as well that we’ve let a few of these old sayings fade into trail dust. and there are a ton of these replacement swear words.

But while the f-bomb was famously the verbal bullet that punctuated "Deadwood" conceit, greetings, ruthless violence, retribution and, in one episode, a quote from the Gospels, it was a diversion. Yep. He was thrilled. Poor thing.

political broadside posted in 1847 Oregon City. ", Such colloquy an example of what Richard Engeman, noted Oregon historian, author and curator of the excellent Oregon Rediviva blog once described to me as "public cursing that didn't involve any curse words.". And two, to use the term "dadgum" is just priceless, and three, our fellow Western authors can be quite staid. The down side of my experiment with talking western was that not even my family—or, more importantly, my bartender—could understand a word I was saying. Yet the very first law the town passed, the first in its entire existence, was a law against profanity -- because THAT had gotten out of hand.

I think it is as today as it was in Deadwood days.

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A "Gibface"was an ugly person.

Very good. A "Hedge-creeper" was a prostitute. He was mad enough to swallow a horn-toad backwards.

The first time I saw "Mad Dog Morgan" with Dennis Hopper (I didn't see the movie with Dennis, he was the star of the film.

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All in all, though, we’ve lost more than we’ve gained.

But even with all my flaws, I Dad! By the end of the first year of the town's existence, in 1877, the historical record shows that the town was experiencing, on average, a murder every day. You can bet creator David Milch will once again deliver breathtaking linguistic acrobatics along with the cancelled-too-soon show's typical blood, mud, chaos and questionable justice. Set up red eye (whiskey), bottled courage (whiskey), rookus juice (whiskey), and oh-be-joyful (whiskey) for every last poke down the rail (man at the bar). She didn't announce her arrival, but she was soon shocked and stunned by her new husband's language which she had never heard from him before. For those historians who say the profanity in the show was overdone or anachronistic, I submit these two remarks. The Wild West, aka the Old West, was an astoundingly awesome period in American history that every person who has ever played Red Dead Redemption wants to emulate. But then again, I KNOW my mom did not engage in carnality, so where did I and my brothers and sisters come from? Liked your character Jim!

"iVever": A swear word meaning a lazy man or a bum. I like to think of myself as a New West kind of guy, but all this regulation and penalizing of what I view as an essential mode of self-expression caused me to wonder what the tradition of profanity in the Old West might have been.

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The words most often associated with the show--the long ones dealing with carnage knowledge?

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So it was a one-buck minimum every time I slipped, which occurred approximately every ninety seconds of each waking hour. I’ll swear an oath that this big bug is crooked as a Virginia fence (testify that this self-important oaf is corrupt); truth told, the scoundrel could swallow a bag of nails and cough up corkscrews.

I believe all those soft swear words were put into use by mothers and church going people, perhaps in that time, but certainly in the time I grew up (1950s). You nailed it: "dirty words were not suddenly invented by dadgum hippies." The dialogue's gold could be found in the mesmerizing tapestry of anachronisms and courtly woolgathering that made even the most vulgar subjects sound dreamy.

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