Adobe, sun-dried brick.
Cañon, gorge.
Tules, rush or water-weed. (Bret Harte's Apostle of the Tules.)
Bonanza, originally fair weather at sea, now good fortune in mining.
Fandango, dance of the people.
Corral, a place to collect stock. (A farmer of the West never says cow-pen, or barnyard, or farmyard, but corral.)
Cascarones, egg-shells filled with finely cut gold or silver paper, or perfumes, broken on head of young man, in friendly banter or challenge to a dance.
Burro, small kind of donkey.
Broncho, wild, untamed animal.
Sombrero, hat.