The Anaconda Standard (Anaconda, Mont.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
3,702 issues from 1889 to 1899, published in Anaconda, Montana, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Anaconda Standard is considered by historians and journalists alike as the icon of Montana newspapers for its sophistication, the quality of its printing plant, its editorial prowess, its influence beyond Montana’s borders, and its domination of state politics. Its influence can be linked directly to its owner and creator, Marcus Daly, one of Butte’s 19th-century “Copper Kings.”
In 1889, Marcus Daly invested $30,000 to establish a daily newspaper in Anaconda, Montana, a town Daly established in 1883 to house his Anaconda Copper Mining Company smelters. In creating the Anaconda Standard, Daly followed the lead of his mentor, George Hearst, a man Daly learned the mining business from in Nevada. Hearst had bought the San Francisco Examiner in 1880, which ultimately grew into the Hearst publishing empire. Daly sought out the expertise of John Durston, publisher of the Syracuse Standard and a professor of philology, to operate his infant newspaper. The inaugural issue of the Anaconda Standard hit the newsstands on September 4, 1889, just one month prior to the special election on the Montana constitution and two months prior to Montana’s entry into the Union.
The eight-page, six-column newspaper boasted a contemporary design and layout while providing readers with news of the nation, region, state, and city. The first issue posted stories about a race riot in Louisiana, trotting races in Springfield, Massachusetts, the shipment of eastern rainbow trout to Yellowstone…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Anaconda, 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