[XRdsRev]

The terms "cowboys" and "skinners" were widely in use during the American Revolution to denote the opposing militias (pro-American, pro-British) who fought in the area around New York City, northeast New Jersey and southern Connecticut. The "Cowboys" was the nickname of DeLancey's Refugee's, a Loyalist unit of dragoons recruited around 1777, largely in Westchester County NY. They earned their nickname because of their frequent successful raids into the countryside to capture cattle for the British Army in New York.

[per loin]

They earned their nickname because of their frequent successful raids into the countryside to capture cattle for the British Army in New York.

Out west we call such folks rustlers. Then we hang 'em.

[logcabinman]

What do youthinf the worst that could happen to the Red Sox/Cubs this year? THE DAMN YANKS BEAT THEM BOTH. THE CURSE LIVES ON!