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OverviewWhen readers see the names Mark Twain or Dan De Quille, fake news may not be the first thing that comes to mind. But these legendary journalists were some of the original fake news writers in Nevada's early years. Frontier Fake News puts a spotlight on the hoaxes, feuds, pranks, outright lies, and other literary devices utilized by a number of the Silver State's frontier newsmen during the mid-19th and early 20th centuries. While Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), who got his start at Virginia City's Territorial Enterprise, and Dan De Quille (William Wright), who some felt was a better writer than Twain, are the best known members of the Sagebrush School of Writers, author Richard Moreno includes others such as Fred Hart, who reported on the activities of a fake social club for Austin's Reese River Reveille, and William Forbes, who enjoyed sprinkling clever puns with political undertones in his news columns. Moreno traces the beginnings of genuine fake news from founding father Benjamin Franklin's reporting to the fake news articles of New York and Baltimore papers in the early 1800s. But these examples are only a prelude to the amazing accounts of petrified men, freeze-inducing solar armor, blood-curdling massacres, and other nonsense stories that appeared in Nevada's frontier newspapers and beyond. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Richard MorenoPublisher: University of Nevada Press Imprint: University of Nevada Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.272kg ISBN: 9781647790868ISBN 10: 1647790867 Pages: 184 Publication Date: 07 March 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of Contents"Cover Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgments Chapter Introduction: In on the Joke Chapter 1. A Peculiar Relationship with the Truth Man-Bats on the Moon Edgar Allan Poe's Flight of Fancy A Hoax to Disprove a Hoax ""A Shocking Sabbath Carnival of Death"" Meanwhile, out West A Sidebar—Twentieth-Century Scientific Hoaxes Chapter 2. The Sagebrush School An Exclusive Club Bret Harte's West The Devil's Typographer Renaissance Men Chapter 3. The Humorist How It All Began Trading a Pickax for a Pen News Is Serious Business—or Not ""Mark One, Mark Twain"" Foils and Feuds Pushing the Limits Going Too Far Chapter 4. The Master Joining the Team The ""Quaints"" Big Bonanza Chapter 5. The Liar The Real Lyin' Jim Truth Be Damned Chapter 6. The Scribe A Social Club Is Born Moving On The Story of the Wabuska Mangler An Appealing Opportunity Writing About ""Sumpthin"" Peculiar Making History Chapter 8. The Diarist The April Fools' Day ""Sell"" The Pranksters >From Good Times to Bad Chapter 9. The Vagabond Birth of Semblins The Wandering Years That ""Major"" Title The Time Two Women Fell in Love ""A Few 'Sticksful' of Fiction"" Coming into His Own Politics Comes Calling A Good Man Rollin M. Daggett The Enterprise Goes Dark Chapter 12. The Descendants ""Luscious Lucius"" and Charles Clegg The Enterprise Is Reborn ""The Wild and Wooly School"" The Bob Richards Era Chapter 13. The Wine of Life Selected Bibliography Index About the Author"ReviewsRich Moreno's inviting, graceful writing combined with an intriguing topic, central to the western experience, is a welcome addition to regional literature. Frontier Fake News is a delightful book. --Ronald M. James, Nevada state historic preservation officer (retired), author of The Roar and the Silence: A History of Virginia City and the Comstock Lode Moreno is one of the leading, most experienced writers on Nevada history and he did a masterful job of telling the story of these gifted, quirky writers . . . weaving together their writings, the analysis of scholars, and his own interpretation, to present them in full, living color, warts and all. I loved this book! --Martin Griffith, Associated Press journalist, 1985-2015 """Rich Moreno's inviting, graceful writing combined with an intriguing topic, central to the western experience, is a welcome addition to regional literature. Frontier Fake News is a delightful book.""—Ronald M. James, Nevada state historic preservation officer (retired), author of The Roar and the Silence: A History of Virginia City and the Comstock Lode ""Moreno is one of the leading, most experienced writers on Nevada history and he did a masterful job of telling the story of these gifted, quirky writers . . . weaving together their writings, the analysis of scholars, and his own interpretation, to present them in full, living color, warts and all. I loved this book!""—Martin Griffith, Associated Press journalist, 1985-2015" Author InformationRichard Moreno is the former publisher of Nevada Magazine and author of fourteen books, including Roadside History of Nevada, A Short History of Carson City, and A Short History of Reno. For more than three decades, he has written a weekly history/travel column that appears in the Lahontan Valley News and the Nevada Appeal. In 2007, Moreno was awarded the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame Silver Pen Award. 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