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Frontier journalists settled differences with gunfight

Frontier journalists settled differences with gunfight

Update: 2025-09-02
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The nationally notorious “Oregon Style” of newspapering involved vicious personal attacks and a take-no-prisoners style of cutting invective; but it was ink being spilled, not blood. That is, until one day in downtown Roseburg ... (Roseburg, Douglas County; 1870s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1306e-bud-thompson-gunfighting-newsman.html)
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Frontier journalists settled differences with gunfight

Frontier journalists settled differences with gunfight

Finn J.D. John