Print in a wild land / by John Myers Myers.

Cont.: Pt. 1: Tricks of a lively trade -- The lettered pattern smashers -- Raising foreign cain -- Journalism without schools -- Ads à la carte -- Queen cities and quaint subscription lists -- An operational composite -- Problems and sometimes solutions -- Slants from cocked eyes -- The sanctum no sanctuary -- Intra-mural sports -- Pt. 2: Sidelights and specialities -- The press and the sword -- Impolitic politicians -- Bouts with Bacchus -- Virginia was a city -- A mess of miscellanies -- Criticism unlimited -- History and its cousins -- A literary Duke's mixture -- The winged bronco -- Journalists in other guises.

This book is "an effort to give an idea of how frontier men of print lived, together with some notion of what they achieved, or failed to, in the face of the problems posed by a newly settled region."--Book foreword.