The Frontier Newspapers and the Coverage of the Plains Indian Wars (Native America: Yesterday and Today series) by REILLY, Hugh J - 2010

Santa Barbara, California: Praeger / ABC-CLIO, LLC. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2010. Hardcover. 0313354405 . Probable first printing. Hugh J. Reilly describes the ways contemporary newspapers of the day covered skirmishes and battles between American Indians and settlers or cavalries. The author argues that this coverage often presented the accounts of these clashes in a way that reinforced stereotypes about Native Americans. With a few scattered black & white illustrations. An entry in publisher's "Native America: Yesterday and Today" series. --- In full black cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling. Volume wrapped in dark green jacket with an illustration of one such conflict to front panel. --- An excellent copy: clean, bright and newish in similar, undamaged jacket which is wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; xxiv, 162 pages .