id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-11669 Thompson, Lawrence S. Joseph Charless, Printer in the Western Country (Book Review) 1964-03-01 2 .pdf application/pdf 1436 82 67 With this biography of Joseph Charless of Dublin, Pennsylvania, Lexington, Louisville, and St. Louis, David Kaser makes another solid contribution to the history of printing and publishing in nineteenth-century Amer- ica. Charless is best known as the first Mis- souri printer, indeed, the first printer of the trans-Mississippi west (but not the first printer of the Louisiana Territory, since Braud, Boudousquie, and James Lyon had worked in New Orleans long before Charless saw St. Louis) . cache/crl-11669.pdf txt/crl-11669.txt