In Dallas, they don’t just talk about the old ways. They practice them. And they do it with the hardest rawhide they can find.
“Don’t come to Dallas if you want a light slap on the wrist,” the old leathermen say. “Come to Dallas if you want to feel the Chisholm Trail on your backside.” dallas spanks hard rawhide
Vaqueros and cowboys used rawhide for riatas (lariats), quirts, and rebenques —short whips designed to correct livestock or, in less politically correct times, human laborers. The phrase “hard rawhide” is thus tautological: rawhide, by its nature, is hard. But in the lexicon of the Old West, "hard rawhide" came to mean a person of unyielding character—someone who could take a lashing without breaking. In Dallas, they don’t just talk about the old ways
