Like other booster papers across the West, the weekly Tribune was a major...

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.

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