@book{9847, author = {Christine Pawley}, title = {Reading on the Middle Border: The Culture of Print in Osage, Iowa, 1860-1900}, year = {2001}, pages = {265 pp.}, publisher = {University of Massachusetts Press}, address = {Amherst, MA}, isbn = {9781558492752}, note = {Contents: Introduction. "Noiseless, fleet winged messenger": The Social Meaning of Print "Hunger for print": Reading and Community "Foretaste of Heaven": Reading at School "Benefit and a blessing": The Sage Library "Greatest blessing of our life": Print and Religion "Nearer relation of love and friendship": Print, Gender, and Voluntary Associations "Window" on the World: Newspapers "I find my greatest happiness in reading": Individual Readers App. 1. Simplified Dewey Table App. 2. Periodicals in the Sage Library, 1890s App. 3. Database App. 4. Defining a "Normal" Range of Borrowing}, language = {English}, }