Books on the frontier
Books on the frontier2003
About this book
"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.
Details
- First published
- 2003
- OL Work ID
- OL3254661W
Subjects
HistoryBooks and readingPrintingBook industries and tradeFrontier and pioneer lifeNewspaper publishingTerritorial expansionBook industries and trade, historyPrinting, historyBooks and reading, historyUnited states, territorial expansionFrontier and pioneer life, west (u.s.)