Big Trouble Quotes

“Like other booster papers across the West, the weekly Tribune was a major instrument for town building, even if—or precisely because—it “sometimes represented things that had not yet gone through the formality of taking place.”39 Western newspapers, like western railroads, often ran well ahead of settlement—a process that, in many bleak locales, was still waiting to happen.”
― J. Anthony Lukas, Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America