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Article: Red Blood & Black Ink: Journalism in the Old West
- Article from:
- Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
- Article date:
- January 1, 1998
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CopyrightCopyright Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Winter 1998. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Red Blood & Black Ink: Journalism in the Old West. David Dary. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf., 1998. 346 pp. $30 hbk.
Anyone interested in Western history is familiar with the image of the frontier printer, with his Washington hand press striving to bring civilization to burgeoning tent cities or aspiring river towns. Always there was the possibility of a blooming metropolis in the making, with the resultant rewards.
The reality was harsher, as David Dary points out in this new book that brings together oft-told stories of printers who blazed the way in the Old West along with little-known gems of early journalism. The work covers the founding of the first newspaper at St. Louis in ...