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PRAIRIE MAGGOTS Sheep. Also known as "meadow maggots."
POWDER DAY Taking off work after an amazing mountain snowfall
perfect for skiing.
PRAIRIE GOAT A pronghorn antelope, which is neither a goat nor an
antelope. Also see Speed Goat.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN OYSTERS When bull testicles are eaten as food.
ey can be deep-fried, coated in flour, peppered, and salted.
Sometimes they are pounded flat. ey can also be plainly cooked
on the end of a branding iron after calves have been freshly
branded and castrated. Also known as Cowboy Caviar, Montana
Tender Groins, Dusted Nuts, or Bull Fries.
SADDLE UP e act of climbing into an automobile or onto a bar
stool or horse.
SKEETERS Mosquitoes, also known as B-52s.
SLOW ELK A cow.
SLUFFING When a mass of earth and/or rock slide down the side of
a hill. Extreme examples of sluffing have been known to shut down
and/or alter the course of roads in Montana.
SMARTER THAN A COW A good horse.
SPINNING BRODIES A maneuver performed while driving a vehicle
that involves rotating the rear or front of the vehicle around the
opposite set of wheels in a continuous motion creating a circular
skid-mark pattern of rubber on a roadway. Elsewhere known as
"spinning doughnuts."
PRAIRIE MAGGOTS
SLOW
ELK
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"Purt Near" recited
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