In his most important book since "Cowboy Culture", David Dary gives readers an entertaining, informative, loving history of newspapering in the Old West--from the freewheeling days of the early 1800s, when all the news was a single editor's opinion, to the more balanced reporting of the wonderful small-town weeklies and exciting city newsrooms of the 20th century. 80 illustrations.
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In his most important book since "Cowboy Culture", David Dary gives readers an entertaining, informative, loving history of newspapering in the Old West--from the freewheeling days of the early 1800s, when all the news was a single editor's opinion, to the more balanced reporting of the wonderful small-town weeklies and exciting city newsrooms of the 20th century. 80 illustrations.
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Fine Condition in Fine jacket. Dust Jacket is in as new condition, apart from normal shop shelf wear-contains no tears or chips or other damage. Review copy. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Americana, West; ISBN: 0679446559. ISBN/EAN: 9780679446552. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 12463.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 345 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. AS NEW--VERY NICE COPY--VERY SLIGHT SHELF WARE--TEXT CLEAN AND TIGHT--GIFT--STILL HAS LOTS OF GREAT READS LEFT---1 ST. ED. --1 ST. PRINTING
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Good in Good jacket. Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Jacket is in brodart, light wear. Boards have light wear. Usual library/discard markings. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Minor wear to binding on corners, edges & spine. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Text and images unmarked. Dj lightly shelf worn with scuffs & creases. Dust jacket in a mylar cover.
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As New in As New dust jacket. Octovo hardcover, unworn unread and as NEW in as NEW DJ, tiny nick, now in clear mylar wrap. A fresh copy set in Bulmer type. Newspapers in the west, 345 pages; 8vo 8"-9" tall.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 6x1x9; Gift Inscription by Previous Owner; else In Very Good+ condition and Very Good+ dustjacket. For the first time, the long, exciting, often surprising story of journalism in the Old West--from the freewheeling days of the early 1800s when all the news was an expression of the editor's opinion, to the more balanced reporting of the classic small-town weeklies and busy city newsrooms of the 1920s. Here are the printers who founded the first papers, arriving in town with a shirttail of type and a secondhand press, setting up shop under trees, in tents, in barns or storefronts, moving on when the town failed, or into larger quarters if it flourished. Using many excerpts from the early papers themselves, Dary shows us the amazing ways the early editors stretched the language, often inventing new words to describe unusual events or to lambaste their targets--and how they sometimes had to defend their right of free speech with fists or guns.
