Books on the Frontier: Print Culture in the American West, 1763-1875 |
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Most people on the frontier were literate and eager for reading material, both to learn about current events and to better themselves. In the absence of schools and other established cultural institutions, books served as the primary carriers of culture and civilizations into newly settled regions, penetrating to even the most humble of homesteads. Thus there were many opportunities for printers who carried presses and type along wilderness tracks, for the booksellers and itinerant salesmen who opened up intellectual horizons across the hinterlands, for the librarians who insisted on making books available for all, and for avid readers who eagerly read almost anything they could get theirs hands on.
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