@InCollection{ orear2012,
	crossref = {howell2012},
	author = {Mary Jo O'Rear},
	title = {'A Free and Outspoken Press': Coverage of Reconstruction Violence and Turmoil in Texas Newspapers, 1866--1868},
	pages = {267--284},
	year = 2012,
}

O’Rear shows how newspaper editors’ coverage of violent events like the riots in Memphis, Millican, and Brenham reflected their political positions on Reconstruction.

Postebellum Newspapers

Most Conservative

• The Texas Almanac and Galveston Daily News, ed. Willard Richardson
• Austin State Gazette, ed. John Walker
• San Antonio Herald, ed. John D. Logan

Moderate Conservative

• Harrison Flag, ed. William Barrett
• Texas Countryman (Bellville), ed. John Osterhout

Radical

• Alamo Express (later San Antonio Express), ed. James P. Newcomb
• Weekly Freedman’s Press, ed. James P. Newcomb
• Flake’s Daily Bulletin (Galveston), ed. Ferdinand Flake