Supplied with necessaries, especially money and firearms. Western slang.
1873. Nothing surprises Eastern pilgrims so much, and I may add so painfully, as the steady increase of prices as they go westward…. To travel long out West a man must be, in the local phrase, “well heeled.”—J. H. Beadle, ‘The Undeveloped West,’ p. 351 (Phila., &c.).
