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Author Cloud, Barbara Lee.

Title The coming of the frontier press : how the West was really won / Barbara Cloud ; foreword by Alan K. Simpson.

Publication Info. Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2008.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  PN4894 .C56 2008    Available  ---
Description xxi, 270 pages ; 21 cm.
Series Medill School of Journalism Visions of the American press
Visions of the American press.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-258) and index.
Contents Introduction -- The West as a region -- The mining camp press -- The booster press -- The press and the iron horse -- Fostering political discourse -- Plentiful voices -- Obliterating the frontier -- The legacy of frontier journalism -- The new frontier -- Manifest destiny realized.
Subject American newspapers -- West (U.S.) -- History.
American newspapers.
History.
Press -- West (U.S.) -- History.
Press.
Journalism -- West (U.S.) -- History.
Journalism.
Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
Frontier and pioneer life.
Added Author Simpson, Alan K.
ISBN 9780810125087 paperback alkaline paper
0810125080 paperback alkaline paper
Standard No. 40016181772