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Frontier Americana Lickskillet, Ohio and Tennessee Gnaw Bone, Indiana Turkey Scratch, Arkansas Dunmovin, California Rawhide, Mississippi Cut and Shoot, Texas Hoot and Holler Crossing, Texas Horse Thief, Arizona Jackass Flats, Nevada Hell and Gone Creek, Oklahoma
If a big calf or steer was roped with one of these rawhide lariats attached solidly to the saddle horn, American style, and the roping horse came to an abrupt halt or sat back so that the roped animal hit the rope at a run, the lasso tended to stretch like a rubber band and then snap, possibly springing back to knock an eye out of the cowboy.
Ronald "Rawhide" Reagan.
In the northern Mexican states, especially Sonora, these ropes used to lasso animals from on horseback sometimes are--or anyway were-- woven of strands of rawhide, which is elastic.
American cowboys, perhaps confusing the Spanish dale with English dally, began to understand, maybe at the cost of an eye or two, and in their own lingo called the rawhide lariats dally ropes . That, at least, was the etymology current in Southern Arizona, which was plausible enough to convince me.