Word: chuckwagon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Colorado Springs was called "Little Lunnon." Amidst the Rockies they played cricket and polo; one wrote that the city was civilized because "wherever you find polo, you find good clubs, good society and, usually, good tea." Nowadays, Colorado Springs (pop. 46,000) mixes manicured elegance with Western hospitality. Chuckwagon barbecues are more popular than polo, and uniformed men (from nearby Camp Carson and the Continental Air Defense Command) throng the scrubbed, tree-shaded streets. In the past five years the Chamber of Commerce has spent $50,000 for a campaign to land the Air Academy. The plush Broadmoor Hotel...
...last week a lot of embarrassed Denverites were getting fed up with the cowboy corn. One of them, a former Republican state legislator and oldtime cowpoke named R. M. Hagerman, wrote to the Denver Post and said so in words as hot as chuckwagon coffee...