The North Platte Semi-Weekly Tribune (North Platte, Neb.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
2,138 issues from 1895 to 1922, published in North Platte, Nebraska, digitised for Chronicling America.
Fort McPherson was established in 1863 in an area that later became Lincoln County, Nebraska. The siting of the fort proved fortuitous as various Indian raids and wars, such as the Plum Creek Massacre, broke out nearby in 1864. In November 1866–only three years after the wagon train massacre, North Platte, Nebraska, was platted by General Grenville Dodge for the Union Pacific Railroad. The town grew up almost overnight, attracting more than 5,000 people. Most were railroad laborers, gamblers, and adventurers–a rough-and-tumble frontier town. One account said “Neither property of life was safe.” Within two years, the lawless hordes moved westward with the railroad and North Platte settled down into a prosperous community that officially became a city in late 1875. In 1878, Scout’s Rest, the house of William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody near North Platte, was completed, and Cody joined his family there.
North Platte and Lincoln County boasted many newspapers with various political views and agendas. These include the following three related titles. The Lincoln County Tribune was published from 1885 to1890 by Ira L. Bare & L.A. Stevens. Subsequent titles were the North Platte Tribune (1890-94), published by Ira L. Bare & Moulden, and the North Platte Semi-Weekly Tribune (1895-1922), also published by Bare. The annual subscription prices ranged from $1.25 to $1.50 per year. Bare was originally from Pennsylvania, heading west to Colorado in about 1880. He moved to North Platte in…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- North Platte, Nebraska, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress