| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.3

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.3 | The History Cooperative

Richard W. Clement. Books on the Frontier: Print Culture in the American West, 1763–1875. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, in association with The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 2003. Pp. 139. $29.95.
An 1870 color lithograph appears on the dust jacket of this volume. It portrays a frontiersman clad in buckskin. He holds a pistol in his right hand, steadies a rifle on the ground with his left, and has a knife hanging from his neck. A statement from Emerson Hough in 1918 complements the image: "There, for a time at least, we were Americans. We had our frontier. We shall do ill indeed if we forget and abandon its strong lessons, its great hopes, its splendid human dreams."	1
The dust jacket reflects the author's old-fashioned ardor for his subject. Richard W. Clement aims to attract those general readers enamored by the frontier as well as those with a keen interest in books. Little that he says will surprise historians familiar with the arguments made by Richard C. Wade in The Urban Frontier: The Rise of Western Cities, 1790–1830 (1959), but academic specialists do not comprise his target audience.	. . .

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