The Cheyenne Daily Leader (Cheyenne, Wyo.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
4,336 issues from 1870 to 1884, published in Cheyenne, Wyoming, digitised for Chronicling America.
The first edition of The Cheyenne Leader was published in September 1867, only a few short months after the town of Cheyenne was founded. Its issue line read, “Cheyenne, D.T” for Dakota Territory, and on page three, Cheyenne is identified as a city of Dakota. This changed to “Wyoming” in 1868, before the territory was admitted as a full state in 1890. As the first newspaper in the region, The Cheyenne Leader cost 15 cents and printed every day but Sunday, with the exception of a four-day delay between the first and second installments. An apology was printed by The Cheyenne Leader‘s editor, proprietor, and founder, Nathan Addison Baker: “… we hope to have the mechanical part in a condition to ensure its regular appearance hereafter… we are doing the best we can under the circumstances, which we in common with you all, have to suffer in a town as new as this.”
Days after his move from Denver, Baker had the newspaper up and running. He worked hard to please the Leader‘s small list of investors; advertisements for local grocers, auction houses, and freelance painters also kept the newspaper running. Baker was keen to maintain his readership; a crowd of around 300 people reportedly gathered outside of the business to receive the first issue. Baker’s apology for delayed production in the early days on the paper was not the last indication that the new town had some growing pains. On the first page within the four-column layout of advertisements and short comedic stories, an…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Cheyenne, Wyoming, 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