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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hart, Albert Bushnell 1854- (search)
concerned, the great West grew very slowly and from small beginnings. James Hall, in 1835, attempted to gather some of the traditions of the past into his Sketches of the West, and edited a magazine—The Western souvenir—and about the same time Timothy Flint began to publish his Western monthly review. Newspapers there were in plenty. About 1830, in the little city of Cincinnati, regularly appeared the semi-weekly Liberty Hall and the Cincinnati gazette, the National Republican and Cincinnati Advertiser, the weekly Emporium and Independent press, and one daily, the Commercial Advertiser. To this day many parts of remote regions like Arkansas and the Mississippi lowlands are less civilized than the Ohio of seventy years ago. In reformatory and charitable institutions the Mississippi Valley has learned slowly. Our frontier greatgrandfathers were frankly cruel—cruel to their children, cruel to their apprentices, cruel to the insane, cruel to the paupers, cruel to convicts, and cruel <