Abstract
Editors in Nevada, Texas, Arizona, or California sprinkled fanciful items among editorials boosting their new El Dorados and sober news accounts. Besides connecting East and West via the imagination, these fairy-tale briefs provided a respite from the harsh reality reported graphically in the news columns and too often experienced personally by readers in frontier communities during the late nineteenth century.
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