The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #7295   Message #2272272
Posted By: Amos
25-Feb-08 - 06:51 PM
Thread Name: Origins: I Ride An Old Paint
Subject: RE: I Ride An Old Paint
They water in the coolies, they water in the draw....

These are terrain features; it means that dogies will run around anywhere they can to get water while on the trail. A draw is a widening rift between higher hills or mesas (cf "Ghost Riders" riding down a cloudy draw). I always thought a cooly was a corruption of an Irish word meaning a small dry creekbed or some such, but I cannot find any reference for it now.


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