Let's go West, young man! The town backed by newspaper publisher Horace Greeley -- the man who may, or may not, have proclaimed "Go West, young man!" -- is all grown up. Grown up enough to ...

“Go West, young man.” You may know that Horace Greeley didn’t come up with the phrase. Like a good newspaperman of his era, he “borrowed it” from John Soule’s Terre Haute (Indiana ...

When New York Tribune owner Horace Greeley wrote in an 1865 editorial, "Go West, young man, go West," he became a leading voice in America's expansion westward following the recent successful ...

Horace Greeley is often credited with coining the phrase “[g]o West, young man.” He did not. But Greeley’s relentless use of it during his longtime advocacy of western expansion made those ...

Go west, old man! “Wait a second, cowpoke, that ain’t right,” you say. Technically, you’re right, as newspaperman Horace Greeley famously said back in 1865, “Go west, young man.” ...

Dorman Lehman, interpretive staff member with the Greeley Museums, is a member of the Overland California Trails Association. He submitted this about Horace Greeley and his initial trip through ...

In the mid-19th century, author Horace Greeley exhorted Americans to "Go west young man, go west and grow up with the country." While Mr. Greeley was encouraging people to leave East Coast cities ...

Greeley wrote: "Washington is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting, and the morals are deplorable. Go West, young man, go West, and grow up with the ...

‘Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.” Substitute the word “woman” for “man,” and this famous exhortation—attributed to newspaper editor Horace Greeley in 1865 ...

As 19th century newspaper editor Horace Greeley noted, “Go West Young Man.” What was true then is still true today. The gold of the West is no longer in the Sierra Nevada foothills as it is now in the ...

“Go West, young man, go West,” is an often quoted expression, which was first used in 1851 by John B. Soule, who was an editor for the T.H. Express.