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Posted on entry Durbin ::: June 20, 2005, 08:47 AM:
It's already happened here, though Americans are in total denial of the subject. We wiped out the Native American population and stole their land.
Our nation is based on it.
Posted on entry Hot New York minute ::: June 09, 2005, 06:43 PM:
But "recorded use" would have been among non-cowboy (or cowgirl) dictionary-types in East Coast locales such as New York and Boston.

The term might not have migrated eastward until 1906.

Am I right?
Posted on entry Hot New York minute ::: June 09, 2005, 06:04 PM:
I thought sidekick was cowboy term out of the Great American West. Roy Rogers' sidekick was, I don't know, Chill Wills, I think.

I'm sure it's derived from the combination of horseback riding and rounding up cattle, Rawhide-style.

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