Vocabulary

=WESTERN WORDS=

__**Chuck wagon**__ - a wagon carrying food supplies for cooking meals on the trail.

__**Colts**__ - Firearms.

__**Desperado**__ - a desperate and reckless outlaw

__**Didn't cotton to**__ - didn't like

__**Dry**__ - gulch-to lie in wait and attack someone by surprise.

__**Forked**__ - straddled.

__**Holed up**__ - hiding out.

__**Lynching**__ - the crime of killing someone, often by hanging, without the approval of the law.

__**On the dodge**__ - moving from place to place to avoid capture by peace officers.

__**Peace Officer**__ - a marshal,sheriff,police officer,or the person whose job is to protect people and make sure that laws are followed

__**Pluck**__ - spirit or courage

__**Poss****e**__ - a group of people appointed by a sheriff or marshal to help with law enforcement ,such as capturing outlaws

__**Put down stakes**__ - to claim a piece of land and make a home there

__**Right as rain**__ - honest and true

__**Running muddy**__ - going badly

__**Shooting irons**__ - firearms

__**Sorrel**__ - a light reddish brown horse,often with a light-colored mane and trail

__**Spread**__ - a ranch, or farm

__**Square Shooter**__ - a fair and honest person

__**Squatters**__ - people who settle on land without a legal right

__**Tumbleweed Wagon**__ - wagons for transporting prisoners. Tumbleweeds are dried weeds that tumble across the prairie as the wind blows. People thought that a tumbleweed wagon seemed to wander across the prairie in one direction and then another, like a tumbleweed

__**Vittles**__ - food

__**Warrant**__ - a written document issued by a court directing an officer of the law to arrest someone or to search or seize someone's property