J. Anthony Lukas Quote
Like other booster papers across the West, the weekly Tribune was a major instrument for town building, even if—or precisely because—it sometimes represented things that had not yet gone through the formality of taking place.39 Western newspapers, like western railroads, often ran well ahead of settlement—a process that, in many bleak locales, was still waiting to happen.
J. Anthony Lukas
Like other booster papers across the West, the weekly Tribune was a major instrument for town building, even if—or precisely because—it sometimes represented things that had not yet gone through the formality of taking place.39 Western newspapers, like western railroads, often ran well ahead of settlement—a process that, in many bleak locales, was still waiting to happen.