Reminiscences of Pioneer Days in St. Paul: A Collection of Articles Written for and Published in the Daily Pioneer Press
Reminiscences of Pioneer Days in St. Paul: A Collection of Articles Written for and Published in the Daily Pioneer Press
Frank Moore arrived in St. Paul when it was still a rough frontier town clinging to the Mississippi, and he watched it become a city. These collected articles, written for the Daily Pioneer Press, are the firsthand account of someone who was there when ink was mixed by hand and news traveled by steamboat. Moore documents the fierce rivalry between papers like the Minnesotian and the Pioneer, the chaos of early elections, the anticipation of the Atlantic cable news, and the uneasy presence of a frontier in transformation. But what emerges beyond the journalism history is something richer: a portrait of a community inventing itself in real time, complete with humor, rivalry, and the particular energy of people who knew they were witnessing something historic. Moore writes with the plainspoken warmth of someone who genuinely loved this rough, rising place and the characters who populated it. For readers curious about the American Midwest before it mythologized itself, this is a genuine artifact from the workshop of history.
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