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Today’s Comic Book English Lesson: Owlhoot

Owlhoots!

Quite simply, in Old West times, an owlhoot was a bad guy.

Find out more about owlhoots from Word Histories and True West Magazine.

See? Comic books are good for you!

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This entry was posted in comic books and tagged comic books, comics, cowboys, english, language, old west, owlhoot, slang, west, western, writing on January 21, 2020 by Clayton Hove.

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