Books on the frontier : print culture in the American West, 1763-1875

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Books on the frontier : print culture in the American West, 1763-1875

by Richard W. Clement

Library of Congress , University Press of New England [distributor], 2003

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Includes bibliographical references and index

収録内容

  • The first frontier
  • To the Mississippi and beyond
  • Across the great American desert
  • The last frontier
  • The frontier in books

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内容説明

From the end of the French and Indian war through the 19th century, the pioneers of the American book trade moved West, motivated, to varying degrees, by bibliophilia, enterprise and a spirit of adventure. Richard Clement offers a history of book publishing and trade on the American frontier in Lexington, Louisville and St Louis, where Joseph Charless opened various bookstores and print shops. In addition to the publishers and traders, this is also a story of the readers: the men and women of the Great Plains who yearned for the escape of a novel as eagerly as they demanded readable guidebooks; and the missionaries who used books to teach English and learn native American languages. Finally, it demonstrates how books took the stories of the frontier back East.

目次

  • The first frontier
  • to the Mississippi and beyond
  • across the great American desert
  • the last frontier
  • the frontier in books.

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