Not likely sent: The Remington-Hearst "telegrams"

This article challenges as improbable one of American journalism's best-kno wn anecdotes, the purported telegraphic exchange in 1897 between Frederic S . Remington and William Randolph Hearst in which Hearst supposedly vowed, " I'll furnish the war." The article discusses several reasons why it is exce edingly unlikely the exchange ever took place, including: The supposed repl y is at odds with the editorial stance of Hearst's New York Journal in earl y 1897, and the account is not supported by the contemporaneous record of R emington's assignment to Cuba, from where he is said to have initiated the often-quoted exchange with Hearst.