In a message dated 6/9/00 12:49:41 AM Eastern Daylight Time, zacharin@pluto.dsu.edu writes: << What in the bloody Hell is an owlhoot? >> Tsk, tsk, tsk. Kids these days. :) "Owlhoot" is western slang for "outlaw." See also desperado, road agent, ring and rope man, etc., etc. ;) Steve Long