Catchword: Great Barbecue

Filed under: English, Environment

Part of speech: n.

Quotation: The federal injunction to speed up the drilling on public lands is reminiscent of the federal government’s massive land giveaways to railway corporations as an incentive for building the Transcontinental Railway in the 1860s. Historian Vernon Parrington, writing shortly before his death in the late 1920s, called the phenomenon “the Great Barbecue.”

Article or document title:
“The BLM wields fork and spatula over the West’s wildlands” (URL)

Author:
Matt Jenkins

Article, document, publication, web site:
The Vail Trail

Publishing location:
Colo.

Date of publication:
Jan. 13, 2005

This catchword has yet to be researched.