From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow how maps name, claim, and inflame - Monmonier, Mark S.; ebrary, Inc. (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006)
Naming and mapping -- The quest for a national gazetteer -- Purging pejoratives -- Body parts and risqué toponyms -- Going native -- Your toponym or mine? -- Erasures -- Inscriptions -- Epilogue : naming rites.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-199).
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: Names, Geographical -- United States -- Etymology; Names, Geographical -- Etymology; Toponymy; English language -- Etymology -- Names; English language -- Obscene words; Words, Obscene; Electronic books