John Soule, an Indiana newspaperman, was the one who actually used those words--"Go West,
young man"-- in 1851, over ten years after Greeley wrote in his weekly New Yorker
that "If you have no family or friends to aid you . . . turn your face to the Great West and there
build up your home and fortune." It was the first of many such pronouncements, and Soule, like
most of his colleagues in what was then considered "the West," regularly exchanged intelligence
with the Tribune.