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Article: Red Blood and Black Ink: Journalism in the Old West.(Review)
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- Newspaper Research Journal
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- January 1, 1999
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Red Blood and Black Ink: Journalism in the Old West by David Dary (New York: Knopf, 1998. $30) 345 pp.
William Allen White of the Emporia Gazette never traded gunfire with an irate reader. Skill at street brawls with opposing editors was not one of William Rockhill Nelson's accomplishments at The Kansas City Star. They established national reputations among their peers - a rarity beyond the East Coast - by publishing the kind of mature journalism respected in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Editors and reporters long forgotten (if ever remembered) handled the dirty work of bringing a free press into the wilds west of the Mississippi River.
These press ...