The Daily Missoulian (Missoula, Mont.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
2,677 issues from 1909 to 1918, published in Missoula, Montana, digitised for Chronicling America.
The ten-page, seven-column Missoulian represents the oldest continuously operating newspaper in Montana, publishing its first issue in 1873. In 1902, Harry O. Collins formed the Missoulian Publishing Company and remained editor of the Missoulian until he sold the newspaper to Joseph M. Dixon, Montana congressman and later governor of the state. Dixon hired Arthur Stone, a former Democratic state legislator and future dean of the journalism school at the University of Montana at Missoula, to edit the Missoulian.
The daily newspaper covered both national and international news with stories from the Associated Press, as well as providing local news about the university and stories promoting both the lumbering industry and agricultural interests to the south in the Bitterroot Valley and to the north in the Flathead/Mission Valleys. Dixon, a Progressive politician who managed Theodore Roosevelt’s Bull Moose Presidential campaign in 1912, also called for the opening of the Flathead Indian Reservation to white homesteaders in 1910. The Missoulian published a holiday edition promoting Missoula’s business opportunities and those related to both farming and logging. Dixon’s affiliation with Roosevelt and his call for a new tax on the mining industry and regulation of utility rates angered Amalgamated Copper (later the Anaconda Company). In 1926, the Anaconda Company purchased the Missoulian, one of a dozen newspapers it owned, evidence of the enormous control the industry exerted…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Missoula, Montana, 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