Rocky Mountain Husbandman (Diamond City, Mont.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
453 issues from 1875 to 1884, published in White Sulphur Springs, Montana, digitised for Chronicling America.
On November 25, 1875, the first issue of the Rocky Mountain Husbandman rolled off the presses in Diamond City, Montana, a rich placer gold camp along the upper Missouri River. The paper’s editor and publisher was Robert N. Sutherlin, a young farmer from Missouri. Without any journalistic or publishing experience, Sutherlin launched a weekly agricultural newspaper that persisted for the next 67 years, first in Diamond City, then in White Sulphur Springs, and finally in Great Falls. Like many of Montana’s earliest pioneers, Sutherlin first landed in Virginia City, a gold mining camp of several thousand men, but quickly moved on to the struggling camp of Diamond City. At the same time that Sutherlin and his brother William H. operated the Husbandman, Robert established a farm at “Raven’s Roost,” near Diamond City, northeast of Townsend, Montana, which he boasted produced better crops than he grew in Missouri.
In issue No. 1 of the Rocky Mountain Husbandman, Sutherlin laid out his life’s philosophy, reinforcing his dedication to farming: “Since the days when our first parents walked among the fruitful groves and flowery vales of Eden, agriculture has been the honored occupation of man…Were the fields left uncultivated, the orchards and vineyards unpruned, our prosperity would crumble away to dust, civilization hault [sic] and turn back upon its march, and the proud nations of the earth return to a state of semi-barbarism.” Keeping with the agricultural theme, Sutherlin…
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- News
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- White Sulphur Springs, Montana, United States
- Language
- English
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- Chronicling America
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- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
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