Sioux City Register (Sioux City, Iowa)
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447 issues from 1858 to 1868, published in Sioux City, Iowa, digitised for Chronicling America.
The first newspaper in Woodbury County was the Sioux City Iowa Eagle, established by Seth W. Swiggett in 1857. Swiggett proclaimed that the Eagle would be an “independent local journal devoted to the interests of the great North West, particularly of Iowa.” While Iowa was the focus, the Eagle also included local news from Minnesota, Nebraska, and Kansas. After three years of publication, the Eagle was absorbed by the Sioux City Register in 1860.
The Register began as the Western Independent, established by Francis M. Ziebach and A.S. Cummings in Sergeant Bluff in 1857. This publication ran for less than a year before Ziebach relocated the office to Sioux City and changed the title to the Sioux City Register in July 1858. The following year, William Freney joined the paper as the associate editor. As the official paper of Woodbury County, the Register focused on local news, events, and notices of interest to residents of Sioux City and the surrounding area. Due to its location in northwestern Iowa, the Register also featured news of the newly organized Dakota Territory and reported on Native American affairs.
In 1861, Ziebach left Sioux City for the town of Yankton in the Dakota Territory, where he established the Weekly Dakotian. Freney was a partner in this business as well, remaining in Sioux City to oversee the Register while Ziebach edited and published the paper in Yankton. By 1863, Ziebach sold the Weekly Dakotian to George W. Kingsbury, transferred his interest in…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Sioux City, Iowa, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
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- 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