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Newspapering in the Old West: A Pictorial History of Journalism and Printing on the Frontier
by Robert F. Karolevitz
Hardcover, dust jacket in protective mylar cover, 8 1/2" x 10 3/4", 192 pages, in mint condition.
Illustrated with 350 rare photographs, illustrations, advertisements, and newspaper pages.

From the dust jacket:

Close on the trail of the covered wagon and river boat came the tents, frame shacks, and adobe huts, to be occupied by the men with the little hand presses and big day dreams.

'Praise God all ye good people and let the prairies resound to the measured strokes of our job press" wrote the youthful editor of the "Guthrie Get Up."

There was the complete printing outfit that crossed the mountains strapped to the backs of 45 mules. There was the case of the ink rollers eaten by the hungry Indians who thought they were candy. The press that was built of wood, which its owner reckoned could 'tell the truth as well as an iron one.'

But for all their problems, the W's that had be be made with double V's, the crude presses, lack of money, it was in the final analysis, men not equipment, which made newspapering the warm, personal, exciting thing that it was.

There was the "Oregon style" of free-swinging journalism. Example: "There is not a brothel in the land that would not have felt itself disgraced by the presence of the (rival paper) of week before last. It was a complete tissue of gross profanity, obscenity, falsehoods and meanness, and yet it was little below the standard of that characterless sheet," wrote one editor about another's paper. Then there was the "Wyoming style" quixotic and titillating. Perhaps Bill Barlow typified this style when he wrote "Live, laugh and love - there'll come a time when you can't."

In this general style was George R. Caldwell "the Lurid Liar of Landar" and his paper the Platte Valley Lyre, also "Lying Jim Townsend" of the Reno Gazette who concocted news as he needed it with his own fertile imagination.

Sometimes it is true the editorial feuds were climaxed with six guns. Col. R. D. Anthony, a vitriolic editor of several early day newspapers, was at one time or another horsewhipped, beaten with an umbrella, punched in the nose and wounded by gun fire.

Yet, with all, who can say the frontier editor didn't have fun? In this volume, with vintage photographs and breezy perceptive writing, author Karolevitz offers the story of the editors and printers in 17 states who wielded quills, type sticks and six guns with equal deftness.

History? They made it, wrote it and printed it!

GENERAL INDEX

A • B
Isaac Adams • William H. Adams • W.L. Adams • Samuel J. Albright • J.B. Alexander • J. Judson Ames • Dan R. Anthony • David Atwood • Adam Aulbach • Jesus Maria Baca • Nathan A. Baker • Samuel Bangs • Merris C. Barrow (Bill Barlow) • William Bausman • James H. Beadle • Henry Bernard • Arthur Bernhard • Alfred M. Berry • William J. Berry • Michael Beshoar • Horatio Biglow • Alden J. Blethen • Frederick G. Bonfils • Gail Borden • E.C. Boudinot Jr. • Henry Brainerd • William Cowper Brann • Sam Brannan • J.E. Britton • Harry Brook • Beriah Brown • Edward Brown • Hiram Brundage • William Jennings Bryan • John Buchanan • Thomas Bullock • Asahel Bush • W.H. Bush • John S. Butler • Thomas J. Butler • William Newton Byers

C
J.E. Calder • Frank Caldwell • George R. Caldwell • Arthur Capper • John M. Carnahan • James P. Casey • Alfred Chartz • Cincinnati Type Foundry • Anna Gray Clark • William A. Clark • Orion Clemens • Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) • John P. Clum • George Clymer • Catherine A. S. Coburn • Elizabeth Cochran (Nellie Bly) • Charles Collins • Rev. Walter Colton • Francis E. Cook • Godwin Brown Cotton • John A. Creighton • Edward E. Cross • George L. Curry

D • E
Frank M. Dallam • Marcus Daly • R.B. Darlington • Carlyle Channing Davis • Sam P. Davis • David F. Day • Charles De Morse • J.W. Denver • George H. Derby • Charles de Young • Michael Henry de Young • Thomas J. Dimsdale • Benjamin R. Dittes • Reuben L. Doyle • Robert E. Draper • Thomas J. Dryer • Abigail Scott Duniway • Sidney Edgerton

F
William G. Fargo • "Old Virginy" Fenimore • Eugene Field • Alvan Flanders • John Fleming • Lewis R. Flowers • William J. Forbes • John S. Ford • C.A. Franklin • Frederick K. Freeman • Legh R. Freeman • William Freney

G
Henry Gale • Thomas Gale • C.V. Gardner • Tom Gibson • Edward Gilbert • Joseph T. Goodman • George Phineas Gordon • Laura De Forre Gordon • Frances Gotshall • George B. Goudy • A.S. Gould • Horace Greeley • John H. Gregory

H
Edwin O. Hall • George T. Hammond • Herbert S. Harcourt • Thomas Harlan • Moses Harman • John J. Harrington • Bret Harte • J.H. Hayford • George Hearst • William Randolph Hearst Sr. • F. Augustus Heinze • Daniel B. Hertz Jr. • Wild Bill Hickok • George H. Himes • Robert Hoe • J. Allen Hosmer • Edgar Watson Howe • Louis C. Hughes • Gertrude M. Huntington • Laura C. Huntington

I • J • K
Carrie Ingalls • Alfred James • W.L. Jemegan • Joseph E. Johnson • Elbert C. Jones • Grant Jones • Orlando E. Jones • Rev. Isaac S. Kalloch • Ansel Nash Kellogg • Mark Kellogg • Edward C. Kemble • Scipio Africanus Kenner • Thomas J. Key • James Kilgellen • King James of William • Stephen A. Kinsey • Charles L. Kusz Jr.

L
W.A. Laughlin • Alonzo Leland • Charles F. Leland • Gerald Letcher • Frank B. Linderman • Dr. James Long • Florence A. Loughead • Clement A. Lounsberry • Johnston Lykins

M
Marion M. Manners • John H. Marion • James Wilson Marshall • Fr. Antonio Martinez • Bat Masterson • Samuel L. Maxwell • Parker McAllister • L.L. McArthur • Sam McBride • Denis E. McCarthy • James McClatchy • Richard C. McCormick • C.B. McDonald • Thornton F. McElroy • William McKay • Frank P. Mclennan • Lawrence C. McShane • Jotham Meeker • Nathan C. Meeker • Asa Shinn Mercer • Ottmar Mergenthaler • A.W. Merrick • John L. Merrick • Cincinnatus Hiner Miller (Joaquin) • Dr. George L Miller • Josiah Miller • Sol Miller • James H. Mills • Seth Mobley • Esther Hobart Morris • J. Sterling Morton • Thomas Morton • William Moss • Sylvester Mowry • William H. Mullane • John Miller Murphy • Horace W. Myers

N • O • P • Q
Carrie Nation • James W. Nesmith • S.N. Newman • Benson L. Northrup • Edgar Wilson Nye • Paul Nyeland • William J. Osborn • Harrison Gray Otis • E.J. Parkinson • Will H. Parry • J.M. Pattee • J.W. Pattison • David L. Payne • William Wines Phelps • William C. Phillips • Charles Edward Pickett • Henry Plummer • Roy F. Porte • Sidney William Porter (O. Henry) • Thomas Wickham Prosch • Emerson Purcell • William C. Quantrill

R
Adam Ramage • Francisco P. Ramirez • Jesse Randall • William Ransom • John W. Redington • Daniel Reed • Dick Reynolds • James S. Reynolds • Tom Reynolds • Dr. Willard Richards • Willard Richardson • H.C. Riggs • Henry P. Robbins • Roger Robinette • Caroline Romney • Edward Rosewater • William P. Ross • Horace E. Rublee • Samuel Rust

S
Wilbur F. Sanders • Peter A. Sarpy • Ed Schieffelin • Harvey W. Scott • D.G. Scouten • Sequoyah • Robert Semple • John Service • David Sessions • Rev. Charles M. Sheldon • Carter P. Sherwood • J.W. Skaggs • Edward A. Slack • Jack Smith • Spalding Mission • Thomas Starr • J.E. Stevens • B.H. Stone • Wilbur Fisk Stone • Nelson Story • William Strode • J. Clarke Swayze • Moses H. Sydenbam

T
J.A. Talbott • Harry H. Tammen • Samuel Penfield Taylor • Francis M. Thompson • William Thompson • J. Quinn Thornton • Daniel W. Tilton • Jose Alvarez de Toledo • James W.E. Townsend • George Francis Train • Lee Travis • Charles Triplett • Mrs. Phil S. Triplett • Phil S. Triplett • W.G. T'Vault

W • Y • Z
Sam H. Wall • Victor M. Wallace • Kirk C. Ward • Porter Warner • James R. Watson • Nettie Watson • Joseph Webb • Oliver Wells • George West • Western Newspaper Union • William Allen White • Simeon Whiteley • Horace K. Whitney • James W. Wiley • Jonathan Williams • John W. Wilson • Dolly Wright • Lily Wright • William Wright (Dan De Quille) • William Wrightson • Henry Yesler • Brigham H. Young • Agustin V. Zamorano • Frank M. Ziphach

OLD WEST NEWSPAPERS

NOTE: All of the newspapers in the list below are featured in the text and/or illustrations in the book.

ARIZONA

• Arizona Citizen (Tucson)
• Arizona Star (Tucson)
• Arizona Democrat (Prescott)
• Arizona Enterprise (Prescott)
• Arizona Miner (Prescott)
• Arizona Silver Belt (Globe)
• Bullion
• Bulletin (Tucson)
• Nugget (Tombstone)
• Our Mineral Wealth (Kingman)
• Phoenix Herald
• Pick and Drill
• Prospect (Prescott)
• Prospector (Quijotoa)
• Prospector (Tombstone)
• Republican (Phoenix)
• Salt River Herald (Phoenix)
• Sentinel (Yuma)
• Sun-Democrat (Flagstaff)
• Tombstone Epitaph
• Weekly Arizonian (Tubac, Tucson)

CALIFORNIA

Alta California

Bee (Sacramento)

Californian (Monterey, San Francisco)

California Star (San Francisco)

Call (San Francisco)

Columbia Gazette

Democratic Press (San Francisco)

Dramatic Chronicle (San Francisco)

El Clamor Publico (Los Angeles)

Equal Rights Expositor (Visalia)

Expositor (Fresno)

Leader (Stockton)

Los Angeles Star

Los Angeles Times

Mayfield Palo Alto

Mirror (Los Angeles)

Monrovia Planet

National City News (San Diego)

Northern Californian (Arcata)

Picayune (San Francisco)

Pictorial Union (Sacramento)

Placer Times (Sacramento)

Post (San Francisco)

San Diego Bee

San Diego Herald

San Diego Union

San Francisco Bulletin

San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco Examiner

San Francisco Herald

Sonora Herald

Southern Californian (Los Angeles)

Star (Columbia)

Stockton Times and Tuolumne City Intelligencer

Sun (San Francisco)

Sun (San Diego)

Trinity Journal (Weaverville)

Tulare Times (Visalia)

Visalia Delta

Visalia Times

Visalia Times-Delta

COLORADOBR>

Boulder Valley News (Boulder)

Carbonate Chronicle (Leadville)

Cherry Creek Pioneer (Denver City)

Colorado Chieftain (Pueblo)

Commonwealth (Auraria)

Courier (Georgetown)

Crusher (Cripple Creek)

Denver Post

Denver Republican

Denver Times

Denver Tribune

Durango Record

Frontier Index

Gazette & Telegraph (Colorado Springs)

Greeley Tribune

Messenger (Montrose)

Mercury (Canon City)

Out West (Colorado Springs)

Review (Gunnison)

Rocky Mountain Gold Reporter and Mountain City Herald

Rocky Mountain News (Denver)

Solid Muldoon (Ouray, Durango)

Times (Canon City)

Valmont Bulletin

Western Mountaineer (Buckskin Joe)

Western Mountaineer (Golden)

IDAHO

Boise Citizen

Boise News (Idaho City)

Coeur d'Alene Pioneer (Murray)

Golden Age (Lewiston)

Idaho Statesman (Boise)

Idaho Sun (Murray)

Idaho Woman (Caldwell)

Idaho World (Idaho City)

Lewiston Teller

North Idaho Radiator (Lewiston)

North Idaho Star (Moscow)

Tribune (Lewiston)

KANSAS

Appeal to Reason (Girard)

B-B-Blizzard (Kinsley)

Caldwell Advance

Champion (Atchison)

Cheney Sentinel

Commonwealth (Topeka)

Constitutionalist (Doniphan)

Dispatch (Hiawatha)

Dodge City Globe-Republican

Emporia Gazette

Emporia News

Globe (Atchison)

Herald (Delphos)

Herald of Freedom (Lawrence)

Hutchinson News

Kansas Chief (White Cloud)

Kansas Free State (Lecompton)

Kansas Weekly Herald (Leavenworth)

Kansas Workman (Quenemo)

Kingman Mercury

Kingsley Graphic

Lindsburg Localist

Lucifer The Light-Bearer (Valley Falls)

Marion County Record

New Home (Sterling)

Progressive Communist

Redwing Carrier Pigeon

Republican (Lawrence)

Republican Valley Empire (Clyde)

Republican Valley Empire (Concordia)

Russell Record

Shawanoe (Shawnee) Sun

Smasher's Mail (Topeka)

Smith County Pioneer

Squatter Sovereign (Atchinson)

Stute Journal (Topeka)

Thomas County Cat (Colby)

Times (Leavenworth)

Topeka Blade

Topeka Capital

Union (Lecompton)

Western Central Kansas Cowboy (Sidney)

Wichita Herald

MONTANA

Beaver Head News (Virginia City)

Bozeman Avant Courier

Butte Daily Miner

Capital (Helena)

Chinook (Sheridan)

Eagle's Nest (Ekalaka)

East Bannack News Letter

Fort Benton Record

Frontier Index

Helena Herald

Herald (Billings)

Inter-Mountains Freeman (Butte)

Journal (Helena)

Madisonian (Virginia City)

Montana Democrat (Virginia City)

Montana Post (Virginia City, Helena)

Montana Radiator (Helena)

New Northwest (Deer Lodge)

News Letter (Helena)

Silver State (Deer Lodge)

NEBRASKA

Advocate (Ansley)

Alliance Independent

Blair Tribune

Broken Bow Republican

Commoner (Lincoln)

Custer County Leader (Broken Bow)

Frontier Index

Guide Rock Signal

Herald (Ft. Kearney)

Huntsman's Echo

Keith County News (Ogallala)

Merna Record

Nebraska Democrat (Grand Island)

Nebraska Editor

Nebraska Palladium and Platte Valley Advocate (Bellevue)

Nebraska State Journal

Nebraska Statesman (Broken Bow)

New Era-Standard (Kearney)

Omaha Arrow

Omaha Bee

Omaha Herald

Omaha Republican

Omaha Telegraph

Omaha World

Omaha World-Herald

Overton Herald

Pokrok Zapadu (Progress of the West)

Sun (Anselmo)

Trans-Continental (Omaha)

NEVADA

Advertiser (Ione)

Aurora Times

Carson City Appeal

Cupel (Eureka)

Daily Trespass

East of the Nevada (Potosi)

Eureka Sentinel

Gazette (Reno)

Gold Canyon Switch

Index (Carson City)

Measure for Measure (Battle Mountain)

Nevada State Herald (Wells)

Nevada Tribune (Carson City)

Oasis (Hawthorne)

Potosi Nix Cum Rouscht

Reese River Reveille (Austin)

Republican (Eureka)

Scorpion (Genoa)

Sun (Carson City)

Territorial Enterprise (Virginia City)

Waubuska Mangler

NEW MEXICO

Cimarron News and Press

El Crepusculo de la Libertad (Taos)

Democrat (Albuquerque)

Gringo & Greaser (Manzano)

Republican (Sante Fe)

Sun (Socorro)

La Verdad (Sante Fe)

NORTH DAKOTA

Bismarck Tribune

Courant (Bottineau)

Fargo Express

Forum & Republican (Fargo)

Frontier Scout (Fort Union)

Herald (Grand Forks)

Hunter Herald

Larimore Pioneer

Plaindealer (Grand Forks)

OKLAHOMA

Anadarko Democrat

Beaver Herald

Branding Iron (Atoka)

Cherokee Advocate (Tahlequah)

Cherokee Messenger

Cherokee Rosebud

Chickasaw and Choctaw Herald

Chocktaw Intelligencer

Choctaw Telegraph

Democrat (Ponca City)

Dispatch (Woodward)

Guthrie Getup

Indian Arrow

Indian Champion (Atoka)

Indian Chieftain

Indian Journal (Muskogee)

Maysville News

McAlester News-Capitol

Mineo Minstrel

Oklahoma City Times

Oklahoma Star

Oklahoma Times

Oklahoma War-Chief

Our Brother in Red

State Capital (Guthrie)

Tahlequah Telephone

Vindicator (Atoka)

Woods County Enterprise

OREGON

Astorian (Astoria)

Bedrock Democrat (Baker)

Bulletin (Bend)

Capital Journal (Salem)

Chronicle (Hubbard)

City Journal (Canyon City)

Democratic Herald (Eugene)

Enterprise (Oregon City)

Eugene Register-Guard (Guard)

Flumgudgeon Gazette and Bumble Bee Budget

Free Press (Oregon City)

Gazette (Heppner)

Harney Press

Harney Valley Items

Intelligencer (Lachonville)

Medford Mail

Medford Mail Tribune

Monitor (Medford)

New Northwest

Northwestern (Klamath Falls)

Oregon American and Evangelical Unionist

Oregon Argus

Oregon Granger

Oregonian (Portland)

Oregon Irrigator (Irrigon)

Oregon Native Son (Portland)

Oregon Spectator (Oregon City)

Oregon Statesman

Oregon Vidette and Antimonopolist (Salem)

Pacific Empire

Pioneer (Madras)

Plaindealer (Roseburg)

Popgun (Amity)

Roseburg Ensign

Sage Brush (Baker)

Table Rock Sentinel (Jacksonville)

Telegram (Portland)

SOUTH DAKOTA

Black Hills Champion (Deadwood City)

Black Hills Pioneer

Black Hills Times

Dakota Democrat (Sioux Falls)

Dakota Republican (Vermillion)

Dakotian (Yankton)

Dell Rapids Exponent

De Smet News (& Leader)

Deuel County Herald (Goodwin)

Douglas County Chronicle

Egan Express

Giles City Chieftain

Mitchel1 Capital

Moody County Enterprise (Flandreau)

Northwestern Independent (Sioux Falls)

Pioneer-Times (Deadwood)

Reporter and Farmer (Webster)

Salem Register

Standard (Vermillion)

Times (Brule City)

Volga Gazette

Yankton Press and Dakotan

TEXAS

Bowie Cross Timber

Dallas Herald

Dallas Morning News

Gaceta de Texas (Nacogdoches)

Galveston News

Houston Post

Hubbard City News

Iconoclast (Waco)

Lone Star (El Paso)

El Mejicano (Nacogdoches)

Mobeetie Panhandle

Northern Standard (Clarksville)

San Antonio Express

Telegraph and Texas Register

Texas Gazette (Austin)

Texas Republican (Nacogdoches)

True Blue

Vernon Guard

Wichita Herald

UTAH

Censor (Richfield)

Deseret News (Salt Lake City)

Frontier Index

Iron County Record

Kirk Anderson's Valley Tan

Manti Herald

Mormon Tribune (Salt Lake City)

Our Dixie Times (St. George)

Reporter (Corinne)

Rustler (Ogden)

Salt Lake City Herald

Salt Lake Tribune

Telegram (St. George)

Utah Patriot (Park City)

Wasatch Wave (Heber)

Women's Exponent

WASHINGTON

Ballard (News) Echo

Blaine Journal

Champion (New Whatcom)

Columbian (Olympia)

Cowlitz Advocate (Castle Rock)

Elma Chronicle

Everett Herald

Eye (Snohomish City)

Fairfield Progress

Intelligencer (Seattle)

Molson Leader

Montesano Vidette

Northern Light (Whatcom)

Olympian (Olympia)

Overland Press (Olympia)

Pacific Tribune (Tacoma)

People's Telegram

Pioneer and Democrat (Olympia)

Post (Seattle)

Press (Seattle)

Press-Times (Seattle)

Puget Sound Courier (Steilacoom)

Puget Sound Dispatch (Seattle)

Puget Sound Express (Steilacoom)

Puget Sound Weekly (Seattle)

Rebel Battery (Seabeck)

Seattle Chronicle

Seattle Gazette

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Seattle Telegraph

Seattle Times

Skagit News (Mount Vernon)

Spokane Chronicle

Spokane Falls Review

Spokan Times

Spokesman-Review (Spokane)

Sumner News

Tacoma Herald

Tacoma Ledger

Tacoma News

Tacoma Telegraph

Tattler (Dayton)

Truth Teller (Steilacoom)

Washington Gazette

Washington Standard (Olympia)

Washington Statesman (Walla Walla)

WYOMING

Argus (Cheyenne)

Bill Barlow's Budget (Douglas)

Boomerang (Laramie)

Carbon County Journal (Rawlins)

Cheyenne Sun

Dillon Doublejack

Frontier Index

Laramie Sun

Leader (Cheyenne)

Lusk Herald

Northwest Live Stock Journal (Cheyenne)

Platte Valley Lyre (Saratoga)

Republican (Laramie)

Sagebrush Philosophy

Sentinel (Laramie)

South Pass News

Sun (Saratoga)

Telegraph (Fort Bridger)