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The coming of the frontier press : how the West was really won

Title
The coming of the frontier press : how the West was really won / Barbara Cloud ; foreword by Alan K. Simpson.
Author
Cloud, Barbara Lee.
Publication
Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2008.

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Additional Authors
Simpson, Alan K.
Description
xxi, 270 pages; 21 cm.
Summary
"In The Coming of the Frontier Press, Barbara Cloud describes how newspaper publishers joined nineteenth-century Americans as they headed west to settle the frontier. Unable to make their fortunes in gold mining, these publishers returned to their first calling, newspapers. Focusing on the period from 1840 to 1890, Cloud argues that these early papers played a crucial role in civilizing the West, bringing spread-out communities together by providing a forum for political discourse and a source for community news, as well as stories from the East. Cloud investigates both the positive and negative influences of the frontier press, from the role of newspapers in railroad expansion to their excessive zeal to make room for settlers who would become their subscribers and their advertisers. Ultimately, few papers survived into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, but Cloud rounds out this study with an analysis of those that did endure and a look at how the innovations in content and appearance of western news sheets would affect print media nationwide."--BOOK JACKET.
Series Statement
Medill School of Journalism Visions of the American press
Uniform Title
Visions of the American press.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-258) and index.
Contents
Foreword / Alan K. Simpson -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The West as a Region -- 3. The Mining Camp Press -- 4. The Booster Press -- 5. The Press and the Iron Horse -- 6. Fostering Political Discourse -- 7. Plentiful Voices -- 8. Obliterating the Frontier -- 9. The Legacy of Frontier Journalism -- 10. The New Frontier -- 11. Manifest Destiny Realized.
ISBN
  • 9780810125087 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0810125080 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2008013795
  • 40016161968
OCLC
  • ocn214935262
  • 214935262
  • SCSB-5447560
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries