The perilous lives of frontier newspapermen (includes exclusive chapter)
Frontier newspapering was dangerous – quite a few newspapermen died by violent means and most of them, as they went about their work, had a revolver in easy reach.
Quintus Hopper of Nevada, published in January 2022, is a historical novel that follows the epic and peculiar life of a frontier newspaper typesetter. As part of my research I made extensive use of newspaper archives and, in this series, I’ll share some of my often surprising findings. Here are history, commentaries and contemporary newspaper articles a…
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