| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.2

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.2 | The History Cooperative

*Books on the Frontier: Print Culture in the American West, 1764–1875.* By Richard W. Clement. (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 2003. 139 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $29.95.)
Richard W. Clement's edition is another positive vote for Frederick Jackson Turner's thesis of the frontier's impact on American history. Books on the Frontier takes a unique approach to the variety of factors that forged the United States.	1
The dilemma of distribution forced booksellers to fan out along the eastern seaboard and then westward into new states and territories. The development of shipping on various major rivers facilitated the development of bookselling as a trade in the West. Missionaries carried a press to Hawai'i by ship in 1820, and Oregon settlers over-landed their equipment late in that decade. Printing came to California in 1834, and Texas's first press had the distinction of being tossed into a bayou by Santa Ana just prior to his defeat at San Jacinto.	. . .

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