Some think it means "husher" and is connected with "whoosher," others that it is a corruption of "hussar." Still others believe it comes from a greeting, "Who's yere?" Apparently, hoosier at first did not signify an Indianan particularly, but any
rough-and-ready fellow of the Wild West.
On the strength of what she shows, Longfellow, Alden and Harlow appear to have been very able and refined but not fundamentally inventive talents happy to work within the broad parameters of contemporary American style and context, from the portentous Classicism of the Carnegie Institute to the
rough-and-ready finishes of seaside Maine.
When Gallegos wrote Dona Barbara, he based the title character on the
rough-and-ready Vasquez.
Eighteen months after graduating from Goldsmiths College, London, in 1995, he set up Lost In Space, a series of
rough-and-ready group shows in his south London flat in order to promote fellow emerging artists.