Boondocks on "brokeback"

[Grant Barrett]

On Jan 24, 2006, at 13:27, Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:
> i'm away from my atlases, and can't find usable sources on-line, so i
> can't say anything on the existence of a real Brokeback Mountain, in
> Wyoming or elsewhere.

I found no mention of any place name with "brokeback" or "broke-back"
in it in any of these databases:

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
<http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/>

Geographic Names and Information System
<http://geonames.usgs.gov/>

Place Names (U.S. Gazetteer interface, I believe, but I also checked
the U.S. Gazetteer via dict.org)
<http://www.placenames.com/>

South Australian State Gazetteer
<http://www.placenames.sa.gov.au/pno/index.phtml>

Gazetteer of British Place Names
<http://www.gazetteer.co.uk/>

Grant Barrett
gbarrett at worldnewyork.org
http://www.doubletongued.org/

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