The Silver State (Unionville, Nev.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
8,581 issues from 1875 to 1903, published in Winnemucca, Nevada, digitised for Chronicling America.
In 1862, in anticipation of development in the local mining district in Humboldt County, a few early settlers established a fledgling town at the crossroads where wagon trains heading west and south to the Sierra Nevada passes forded the Humboldt River. The settlement was later named Winnemucca, after the respected chief of the local Northern Paiute Tribe. Chief Winnemucca’s daughter, Sarah Winnemucca, became renowned as an advocate for the education and fair treatment of the Paiute and Shoshone peoples and author of the first autobiography by a Native American woman. On September 16, 1868 construction of the Central Pacific Railroad reached the town, which was a natural choice for a depot on the new intercontinental railroad. Winnemucca flourished as a regional business and distribution center and became home to many Chinese railroad workers, Basque settlers, and local Western Shoshone and Northern Paiute communities. By 1872, it was the largest town in Humboldt County, and the Nevada State Legislature moved the county seat from Unionville to Winnemucca. Today it is the only incorporated city in Humboldt County and is still at a crossroads, where Interstate 80 crosses U.S. Highway 95.
When the Central Pacific Railroad bypassed Unionville, the original county seat, that town declined rapidly and lost not only its status as county seat, but also its newspapers. Its first paper, the Humboldt Register, which appeared in 1863, suspended publication in 1869 and moved, after a…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Winnemucca, Nevada, 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