James Schwoch - Wired into Nature: The Telegraph and the North American Frontier

My deepest appreciation goes to all the librarians, archivists, curators, and staffs at the various institutions where I conducted research for this book. These libraries and institutions include the Northwestern University Libraries; the National Archives; the Smithsonian Institution; the Library of Congress; the Rush Rhees Library at the University of Rochester; the Massachusetts Historical Society; the Newberry Library; the Grove; the Alaska State Library, Archives, and Museum; and the Anchorage Museum. In addition, a number of institutions granted permissions to use images in their collections and assisted with providing those images. They include the front cover image, courtesy of the Taft Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio, as well as images provided by some of the aforementioned institutions and other institutions. Danny Nasset at the University of Illinois Press was invaluable as my editor. I also am thankful to the entire staff at the University of Illinois Press and for the comments on the manuscript by anonymous reviewers. Ellen Wartella, Chair of the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern, provided department funding to support the production of this book, and her support and the support of my department colleagues enhanced the illustrations, layout, and overall book design, for which I am grateful. Mimi and Travis shared their enthusiasm, as always. My students gave me good advice about this project on many occasions, as did many friends and colleagues. My thanks to everyone.

JAMES SCHWOCH is a professor of communication studies at Northwestern University. He is the author of The American Radio Industry and Its Latin American Activities, 19001939 and Global TV: New Media and the Cold War, 194669.

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Wired into Nature: The Telegraph and the North American Frontier James Schwoch

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