![]() ![]() The Texas “Newspaper Frontier” as it appeared in 1880 John Pfak, of the wonderful eponymous online bookstore specializing in unusual, rare and unique material in the sciences and the history of science, demonstrated this from a map he found, shown below, in an 1882 book entitled History and Present Condition of the Newspaper and Periodical Press of the United States: ![]() Oddly, there was something of a line at the 100th meridian between the Texas with newspapers and the Texas without newspapers. ![]() In 1870, the population of Texas was 818,579 (ten years later, it would almost double, approaching 1.5 million people). She also employs a distinctive style of showing dialogue without any distinguishing punctuation, which makes it more a part of the narrative flow. She does a great deal of research, and then dramatizes conflicts among people in the era about which she is reporting with an unstinting yet lyrical eye. Her books are unlike any others I have read. Her novels often explore historical periods but with a poetic bent. When I saw Paulette Jiles had a new book I jumped at the chance to read it. ![]()
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