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Vigilante Newspapers: A Tale of Sex, Religion, And Murder in the Northwest
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Book cover for 9780295985299
 
from Univ of Washington Pr (November 5, 2005)
9780295985299 | details & prices | 189 pages | 6.00 × 9.25 × 0.50 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $25.00
About: An examination of how early twentieth-century Seattle and Oregon media protected traditional frontier ideals, particularly the the notion that men are responsible for the protection of women's purity, is shown through the papers' coverage of two murders related to 'Holy Roller' evangelist Edmund Creffield.