Sierry Petes: the Sierra Prieta Mountain range near Prescott, Arizona
rodeer: Spanish for "rounding up." A rodeer camp is a round-up out on the range
bush up: hide in the bushes
seago: loose hemp rope
dallies: transliterated from the Spanish dale vueltas, a Mexican term which means "give it some twists," and refers to the
practice of looping rope lossely (rather than tying "hard and fast&quot around the saddle horn
riata: Spanish for rope
swaller-forked: to make an identifying notch in the ear of cattle, in the shape of a swallowtail

“Buster Jig” in this poem is Gail I. Gardner himself. While Sandy Bob is referring to his friend, “Texas” Bob Heckle. Both these cowboys left tracks all over Yavapai County. An interesting side-note is that Bob Heckle was the Grandfather of Marty Robbins, famed country-western singer of the 50’s and 60’s. Another note; the line “I’m sick of the smell of burnin’ hair and I low’s I’m goin’ to town” was originally written “I’m sick of this cowpierography and I low’s I’m goin’ to town.” Gail changed the line himself because so many people didn’t know what he was writing about to cow pyrography. Pyrography is the art or technique of decorating wood or LEATHER by burning a design on the surface with a heated metallic point. In this context Gail Gardner means BRANDING. The two cowboys are sick and tired of using their “running irons” to “decorate” the hides of the cattle–with brands.