Headline Hunters of the Old West

From newspapers to dime novels, to land barons to even photographers, the Old West was a canvas for fiction and a back drop ripe for exaggeration. As easterners craved, even demanded, information on the West, those who dared to venture beyond the Mississippi had an opportunity to show and tell tales...

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Other Authors: Arts and Entertainment Network., Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm), Infobase.
Format: Video
Language: English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2011]
Physical Description: 1 streaming video file (45 min.) : sound, color, digital file.
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505 0 |a Old West: Exaggerated Stories (2:37) -- Myth of the West (2:01) -- Tales of Gold (1:24) -- Western Artists: Colors of the West (4:03) -- Painters Remington and Russell (1:16) -- Newspaper Illustrators (3:09) -- News Reporters: Myth Makers (2:02) -- Phenomenon of the Dime Novel (3:22) -- Personal Travel Stories (2:25) -- Promotion by Railroads (3:33) -- Town Boosters (4:10) -- Wild West Shows (6:53) -- Embellishment of the West/Reality of the West (2:20) -- Frontier: Insanity, Fear, and Disease (2:34) -- Credits: Headline Hunters of the Old West (1:30) 
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520 |a From newspapers to dime novels, to land barons to even photographers, the Old West was a canvas for fiction and a back drop ripe for exaggeration. As easterners craved, even demanded, information on the West, those who dared to venture beyond the Mississippi had an opportunity to show and tell tales of a virtually unknown land. As a result scores of frontier originators began to surface. Each had his own story and his own perception as to what the West was or should be. For the storyteller, as for his eastern audience, too often the truth of the West was lost in its telling. 
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