History: Embedded Journalists in the 1870s. – Sheridan Media
Although today we have radio, television, the internet and an almost unlimited stream of news reports, back in the 1870s in Wyoming, during what is referred to as the ‘Great Sioux War,” this wasn’t the case. But, people back east still wanted news, especially news of their fathers and husbands; sons
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