whooping-up

Updated: May 19, 2025

It seems almost unbelievable that sober, steady-going America ever knew such days; but there they were, and not so long ago, for this was only 1870. Two days after Bill was elected marshal of Abilene, he killed a desperado who was "whooping-up" the town in customary fashion.

Emerson Hough - The Story of the Outlaw: A Study of the Western Desperado