The Fort Snelling Bulletin (Fort Snelling, Minn.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
779 issues from 1928 to 1946, published in Fort Snelling, Minnesota, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Fort Snelling Bulletin was a weekly newspaper that served as the official news source for Fort Snelling, a U.S. Army military garrison located near St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota. Constructed between 1820 and 1825 and decommissioned in 1946, the fort sits on what is known as Bdote, a sacred gathering space for the Dakota.
The Bulletin was first published in 1928 by the garrison’s commanding officer, Colonel Walter C. Sweeney. The earliest iterations of the newspaper comprised two or four mimeographed pages resembling a newsletter. The issue from November 23, 1928 notes that the paper was growing and that, as of that writing, it was published with no financial assistance from Fort Snelling at large. It also exhorted soldiers stationed at the garrison to contribute news material for publication related to their units. Beginning with the November 20, 1943 issue, the paper began to resemble a more traditional newspaper.
The Bulletin featured content “by and for the military personnel at Fort Snelling;” it did not generally cover local news of surrounding municipalities. Numerous garrison personnel served as the paper’s editor during its run, typically for less than one year. In addition to printing general news related to the army and its local units at Fort Snelling, the newspaper also contained religious worship service schedules, theater offerings, film reviews, athletics news, cartoons, gossip, jokes, and historical tidbits about the fort’s past, among other…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Fort Snelling, Minnesota, 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