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Article: Red Blood and Black Ink: Journalism in the Old West.(Brief article)(Book review)
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- October 1, 2009
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Red Blood and Black Ink: Journalism in the Old West (1998, by David Dark,): The FrontierWest had its share of colorful newspapermen, though the best known of them--Mark Twain, Bret Harte and Ambrose Bierce--achieved greater fame and fortune through their books. Author David Dary makes it abundantly clear that the likes of Twain and Bierce were hardly alone when it came to Western journalists who were more opinionated than objective, more tongue-in-cheek than factual, sometimes more drunk than sober and often more entertaining to read than dime ...