The New North-West (Deer Lodge, Mont.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,399 issues from 1869 to 1897, published in Deer Lodge, Montana, digitised for Chronicling America.
On July 9, 1869, the first issue of the New North-West rolled off the presses in Deer Lodge, Montana, under the direction of James Hamilton Mills. A native of Ohio and a veteran of the Union Army, Mills had arrived in Virginia City, Montana, in 1866 with ten cents in his pocket. He came to Deer Lodge after editing the Montana Post for several years. In the first issue of the New North-West, Mills linked the newspaper’s name to a new era of agricultural and mining development in the Deer Lodge Valley and beyond, in the greater Northwest. Mills also trumpeted a vision of the future which included the Northern Pacific Railroad and the territorial prison. In that same inaugural issue Mills also introduced the political platform of the People’s Party of Deer Lodge County, criticizing exorbitant taxes and the atmosphere of violence and disorder. The slate of Populist candidates came from nearby Beartown, French Gulch, and Butte, and the Deer Lodge Valley.
For the next 22 years, Mills edited the New North-West, actively promoting Republican politics and politicians. Like many of Montana’s early newspaper editors, Mills gained notoriety beyond the pages of his newspaper. Prior to his death in 1904, Mills served as Secretary of the Montana Territory; Adjutant General; State Commissioner of Agriculture, Labor, and Industry; Powell County Clerk & Recorder; Grand Master of the Montana Masons; and first president of the Montana Press Association. In the battle between Anaconda and…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Deer Lodge, Montana, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
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- 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