Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! A saddle tramp was a cowboy who spent most of his time in the food line. This isn't a compliment.
Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! This is a cowboy drifter. A saddle bum rides from place to place without ever settling down and getting a job.
Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! This one is a combination of "tramp" and "vamoose." It means to wander, to tramp about.
Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! This was another term for cowboy. The image is of the cowboy spending so much time in the saddle that he's stiff.
Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! This was a descriptive phrase meaning someone was in disgrace. A cowboy would never sell his saddle unless he was in dire straits.
Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! This is another term for the saddle horn. A cowboy never grabs the lizzy when riding.
Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! This meant to grab the saddle horn. No cowboy would grab the apple.
Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! This was a descriptive phrase to refer to grabbing the saddle horn. No cowboy wanted to have to squeeze the biscuit.
To ride a horse, usually with some speed and gusto. Comes from a part of a Western saddle, the fork.
Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! This one just meant the saddle. A hull is the outside part of a seed, the husk. A saddle looks a little like one on a horse.
Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! This was a way to tell someone to calm down. An angry cow shoved with its horns.
Not cowboy slang. Overalls are another name for work pants.
A horse is a "hay burner".
'Cracklings' are the remains of a fire or cinders.