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Article: Red Blood and Black Ink: Journalism in the Old West
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- Journalism History
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- October 1, 1998
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CopyrightCopyright Journalism History Autumn 1998. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Dary, David. Red Blood and Black Ink. Joural in the Old West. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. 345 pp. $30.
David Dary, head of the journalism school at the University of Oklahoma and a fourth-generation journalist, offers an entertaining, engaging, informative, and often humorous account of western journalism from 1808 to the 1920s.
In his fifth book about the creating of the west, he seeks to "capture the social memory of newspaper journalism" as well as its "flavor, emotion, and color." While clarifying that this is not a definitive history, he does present it as the story of the role of journalists "in settling and shaping the American West." He accomplishes this goal. But, though his ...