{"product_id":"frontier-fake-news-nevadas-sagebrush-humorists-and-hoaxsters-paperback","title":"Frontier Fake News: Nevada's Sagebrush Humorists and Hoaxsters - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRichard Moreno\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e When readers see the names Mark Twain and Dan De Quille, fake news may not be the first thing that comes to mind. But these legendary journalists were some of the original, and most prolific, fake news writers in the early years of Nevada's history. \u003ci\u003eFrontier Fake News\u003c\/i\u003e puts a spotlight on the hoaxes, feuds, pranks, outright lies, witty writing, and other literary devices utilized by a number of the Silver State's frontier newsmen from the mid-nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries. Often known collectively as the Sagebrush School, these journalists were opinionated, talented, and individualistic. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e While Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), who got his start at Virginia City's \u003ci\u003eTerritorial Enterprise\u003c\/i\u003e, and Dan De Quille (William Wright), who some felt was a better writer than Twain, are the most well-known members of the Sagebrush School, author Richard Moreno includes others such as Fred Hart, who concocted a fake social club and reported on its gatherings for Austin's \u003ci\u003eReese River Reveille\u003c\/i\u003e, and William Forbes, who enjoyed sprinkling clever puns with political undertones in his newspaper articles. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Moreno traces the beginnings of genuine fake news from founding father Benjamin Franklin's \"Supplement to the Boston Independent Chronicle, Number 705, March 1782,\" a fake newspaper aimed at swaying British public opinion, to the fake news articles of New York and Baltimore papers in the early 1800s. But these examples are only a prelude to the amazing accounts of petrified men, freeze-inducing solar armor, magically magnetic rocks, blood-curdling massacres, and other nonsense stories that appeared in Nevada's frontier newspapers and beyond. \u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Moreno\u003c\/b\u003e is the former publisher of \u003ci\u003eNevada Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e and author of fourteen books, including \u003ci\u003eRoadside History of Nevada, A Short History of Carson City\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Short History of Reno\u003c\/i\u003e. For more than three decades, he has written a weekly history\/travel column that appears in the \u003ci\u003eLahontan Valley News\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eNevada Appeal.\u003c\/i\u003e In 2007, Moreno was awarded the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame Silver Pen Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.6 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 07, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772449259808,"sku":"9781647790868","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/18dc34d0e1479a5ad1c8f4ff4831752e.webp?v=1780405926","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/frontier-fake-news-nevadas-sagebrush-humorists-and-hoaxsters-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}