Word: texan
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Howard Seeley, Yale '78, a former editor of the Lit., is about to publish a book of short stories entitled 'A Lone Star, Bopeep, and Other Tales of Texan Ranch Life.' Mr. Seeley has passed considerable time in the southwest, and has become thoroughly familiar with the ranching life of that section. The field upon which he has entered is quite a new one, and his book promises to be peculiarly interesting...
...Texan who has lived for years among the cow boys says that many of them are graduates of Eastern colleges. No one who has ever lived in a college town will wonder after this at the stories which come to us by telegraph of the artistic genius of the cow boys in painting western settlements...
...PASSED the greater part of the summer on my cousin's cattle-ranch in Texas. Among my other memorable exploits there, I bought a Texan pony. To be sure, my early training had not been such as to make me perfect, or even very proficient, in the necessary requirements of the successful horse-dealer. Still it occurred to me that I knew one or two things about a horse; I imagined I could tell one about as far as I could see him. So I viewed my purchase with the air of a connoisseur. I regarded him as entirely...
...talk very much about myself. I'm not egotistical. I am fully convinced of this, for I've heard myself say it a great many times. But there was one topic which I was perfectly willing to discuss, and that was the general excellence and particular fleetness of my Texan. In fact, I allowed it to be pretty universally understood around the neighborhood that I had a little horse with somewhere from three to five feet on him, which he was in the habit of throwing about with considerable promptitude when occasion required...