writers increased steadily, and the _Genius of the West_, a Cincinnati magazine dating from 1855, extended the list to include the names of Benjamin S. Parker, John B. Dillon, and Louise E. Vickroy. Peter Fishe Reed, also a contributor to the _Genius of the West_ and similar magazines of the period, combined farming with literary experiments near Mount Vernon (Indiana), and lived for a time at Indianapolis. The majority of these pioneer periodicals lived only a short time, and the Civil War brought a final interruption to most of them; they passed out with the “annuals,” whose literary flavor was similar. Indiana’s ante-bellum writers usually looked to Louisville and Cincinnati for publicity, and no serious effort was made to establish literary magazines within the State.[45] It curiously happened, however, that Emerson Bennett, a voluminous producer of “penny dreadfuls,” published a literary paper called the _Casket_, at Lawrenceburg (1846), but soon abandoned it. The patient research of Venable discovered the _Western Censor_, published at Indianapolis in 1823-1824, and _The Family Schoolmaster_, which had a brief existence at Richmond in 1839. _The Querist_ was conducted by Mrs. Nichols for a few months at Cincinnati in 1844, and Henry Ward Beecher’s _Indiana Farmer and Gardener_ was begun at Indianapolis in 1845, but removed to Cincinnati in the following year. Beecher’s contributions to this paper were the nucleus of his book “A Pleasant Talk about Fruits, Flowers, and Farming.” The _Literary Messenger_ is credited to Versailles, 1854.