who said go west, young man, go west
He seems like a great candidate to be the author of âGo west, young man,â since he did exactly that. But itâs hard to prove that Soule, not Horace Greeley, coined the famous appeal. In November 1853, the Soule brothers bought The Wabash Express from Kentuckian Donald S. Danaldson, who had acquired it in 1845.