Books on the frontier
Subtitle: print culture in the American West, 1763-1875
By: by Richard W. Clement.
Publisher: Library of Congress; Distributed by University Press of New England
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; Hanover, N.H
Language: eng
Number of pages: 139
Subjects: Book industries and trade -- United States -- History; Book industries and trade -- West (U.S.) -- History; Printing -- United States -- History; Printing -- West (U.S.) -- History; Books and reading -- United States -- History; Books and reading -- West (U.S.) -- History; Newspaper publishing -- United States -- History; Frontier and pioneer life -- United States -- History; United States -- Territorial expansion -- History; West (U.S.) -- History
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-132) and index.
Table of contents: title: The first frontier; title: To the Mississippi and beyond; title: Across the great American desert; title: The last frontier; title: The frontier in books.