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Horace Greeley, to whom the saying is attributed "Go West, young man" is a phrase, the origin of which is often credited to the American author and newspaper editor Horace Greeley, concerning America's expansion westward as related to the concept of Manifest destiny. No one has yet proven who first used this phrase in print, although 21st ...
Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune.Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressman from New York and was the unsuccessful candidate of the new Liberal Republican Party in the 1872 presidential election against incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant, who won by a ...
Born in 1824 in Ireland, McClatchy was a young journalist on the editorial staff of Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune in 1848, when news of a gold strike on Northern California's American River reached the East. Taking the advice of his employer, who famously declared "Go west, young man," McClatchy went west.
"Go west, young man," urged newspaperman Horace Greeley in an 1851 newspaper editorial, and, well, if you're a history buff, you know the rest. Families, individuals and even shopkeepers packed ...
Go West, young man. Surely, you’ve heard the phrase before. It’s been in American existence since the mid-1800s, credited to author and newspaper editor Horace Greeley, who, in an 1865 edition ...
In 1857 the Man Who Preached “Go West, Young Man” Was the First Famous Lecturer in Kewanee. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 ...
Go West Young Man (Michael W. Smith album), 1990; Go West Young Man, Let the Evil Go East, 2008 Greeley Estates album "Go West Young Man" (Groucho Marx song), 1940 film song, later a 1950 single by Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters "Go West Young Man", North America and Japan single release title of "Deep in the Motherlode", a song by Genesis ...
Soule is credited with using the phrase "Go West, young man, go West" in an 1851 Terre Haute Express (Indiana) editorial, 14 years before a similar phrase was famously used by Horace Greeley in reference to western expansion in North America. The phrase is often attributed to Greeley. [2]