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by Richard W. ClementPublication Details
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From the end of the French and Indian War through the nineteenth century, the pioneers of the American book trade moved west, motivated, to varying degrees, by bibliophilia, enterprise, and a spirit of adventure. Through their own lively anecdotes and recollections, Richard Clement offers a history of book publishing and trade on the American frontier in Lexington, Louisville, and St Louis, where Joseph Charless opens various bookstores and print shops. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- 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
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- "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."– BOOK JACKET
Contents
- Foreword / John Y. Cole
- 1. The First Frontier
- 2. To the Mississippi and Beyond
- 3. Across the Great American Desert
- 4. The Last Frontier
- 5. The Frontier in Books
ISBN
- 0844410802
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