Lyon County Times (Silver City, Nev.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
2,253 issues from 1874 to 1907, published in Dayton, Nevada, digitised for Chronicling America.
Lyon County was one of the original counties created when the Nevada Territory was organized in 1861, and it encompassed the booming mining towns along Gold Canyon where gold and silver were first discovered in Nevada before the great Comstock strikes in 1859. These towns experienced the boom and bust common in the early bonanza days and their newspapers came and went accordingly. The travels of the Lyon County Times, the county’s paper of record, reflect the transient nature of these towns and their residents along the Comstock. The newspaper moved from Silver City to Dayton, the county seat, and finally, to Yerington, the site of the new county seat after the courthouse in Dayton burned down in 1911.
Following the demise of the Lyon County Sentinel, which operated from 1864 to 1866, Lyon County had no newspaper of record, until July 4, 1874, when Frank A. Kenyon issued a new paper, which he called the Lyon County Times. Based in Silver City, Kenyon, its sole proprietor and editor, published a tri-weekly consisting of 24 columns, most filled with advertisements. From 1875 to 1877, Harry J. Norton joined Kenyon as associate editor. Famed Nevada newspaper writer Dan de Quille [William Wright] wrote of Silver City in his 1876 western classic, The History of the Big Bonanza:
At Silver City, about five miles below Virginia City, on Gold Canyon, are a considerable number of fine mills, in all of which steam is the motive power. A branch of the Virginia & Truckee Railroad runs…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Dayton, Nevada, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
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- 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)
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- Library of Congress