The language is a mixture of Irish brogue, western twang, eastern etiquette, and uneducated musings. The language, as with the other aspects of the story, is not one of happiness or celebration, but, instead, of roughness and brutal honesty. The one theme that runs through everyone's speech except the Easterner's, is of a raw directness, giving the sense that these characters are, indeed, a reflection of the roughness of the uncivilized West.