John from Bremerton, Washington, is puzzled by a radio announcer’s use of the hortatory phrase Powder River! Let ’er buck! The rollicking, rootin’-tootin’ story of this phrase is told in Western Words: A Dictionary of the American West, an...
bike whack v.— «Hit CP6 withouyt a hitch and headed to CP7 then a “bike whack” that would take us across a river and through a dense woods.…Most teams would back track the whole bike whack. We took roads...