| A | B |
| buckboard | open carriage |
| freighter | person who transports goods |
| ornerier | dialect for "meaner and more stubborn" |
| rigs | carriages with their horses |
| string | group of horses |
| buttes | steep, flat-topped hills that stand alone on a plain |
| up in the collar | pulling as hard as the other horses |
| hipshot | with one hop lower than the other |
| palavered | talked; met to discuss something |
| greasewood from alkali | Thorny, desert plant from dry, salty soil |