During the last half of the 19th century frontier newspapers in the American west were unabashedly political and volatile. Papers were continuously being established, sold, folded and merged, with successive editors determining the paper’s favored political views.
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"A bunch rhodendrum, our state flower, with which few of us on this side of the mountains are familiar, was placed on exhibition in one of the windows of Fred R. Reed & Co's office this week. They were grown by Mayor W. F. Prosser and attracted much attention for their beauty and novelty."