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Books on the frontier

by Richard W. Clement

HistoryBooks and readingPrintingBook industries and tradeFrontier and pioneer lifeNewspaper publishingTerritorial expansionBook industries and trade, history

"In Books on the Frontier: Print Culture in the American West, 1763-1875, Richard W. Clement considers the whole variety of such publications as he chronicles the spread of printing westward and shows how the frontier book and newspaper became a medium for the transmission of cultural values and the formation of a new kind of community."--Jacket.

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