Cimarron country

[George Kincaid]

I just watched the 1930 movie Cimarron, and I noticed there are a lot of
westerns with that term in their titles. I've looked on some of the search
engines, and some of the reference sites like dictionary.com. It's a Spanish
term for bighorn sheep, but other than that, I get contradictory
information. Apart from the river, what exactly was the Cimarron? Thanks.

[Wu P Du]

In article <Sr6dna6fNcYRCzra...@centurytel.net>,
gkinc...@centurytel.net says...

Apart from the river, what exactly was the Cimarron? Thanks.
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Here are just a few of the uses:

* Cimarron Territory, a provisional territory in Oklahoma's panhandle
* Cimarron, Colorado
* Cimarron Hills, Colorado
* Cimarron, Kansas
* Cimarron, New Mexico
* Cimarron City, Oklahoma
* Cimarron County, Oklahoma
* Cimarron Cutoff, part of the Santa Fe Trail
* Cimarron River, in New Mexico, Colorado, Oklahoma and Kansas
* Cimarron Turnpike, a highway which runs between Tulsa and Stillwater,
Oklahoma
* Cimarron Hills, Yavapai County, Arizona
* Cimarron Lake, a reservoir in Mohave County, Arizona
* Cimarron Mountains, Pima County, Arizona

[Wu P Du]

In article <Sr6dna6fNcYRCzra...@centurytel.net>,
gkinc...@centurytel.net says...
>

>Cimarron... It's a Spanish
>term for bighorn sheep

cimarrón, cimarrona - untamed, wild

Not sure where you got your definition from.

[Iyotake]

If it is the same as the 1960 remake, starring Glen Ford, it is about the
following:

Cimarron Territory, a provisional territory in Oklahoma's panhandle.
--
Iyotake

[George Kincaid]

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=cimarron
There's the entry with the bighorn sheep reference. It looks like the
writers of that old western used a fictional "Cimarron Country", not the
specific uses you good folks have given me. Thanks.
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[Wu P Du]

In article <4umdnTecpIe1ZzHa...@centurytel.net>,
gkinc...@centurytel.net says...

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>http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=cimarron
>There's the entry with the bighorn sheep reference.

In literal Spanish "wild sheep" = "ovejas salvajes"

I think the use you refer to is a slang term, according
to your citation:

AmerSp: (carnero) cimarrón wild (sheep)

Resorting to looking in my Span/Eng hardback dictionary:

cimarrón = runaway(slave), gone wild(animal), wild(plant)

[Wu P Du]

In article <4umdnTecpIe1ZzHa...@centurytel.net>,
gkinc...@centurytel.net says...
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>http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=cimarron
>There's the entry with the bighorn sheep reference.

In my other reply I forgot to include the literal
Spanish for "bighorn sheep" = "ovejas del carnero con grandes cuernos"