Eagle River Review (Eagle River, Wis.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,818 issues from 1890 to 1925, published in Eagle River, Wisconsin, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Eagle River Review was first published in 1890 and, shortly after, acquired by Orrin Moon, who had previously run the town’s first newspaper, the Eagle River Vindicator. At the time, 1,150 people called the Town of Eagle River their home. Residents were mostly lumberjacks and those involved in the fur trade. The growing availability of automobiles in the late 1920s rang in a new era in the remote area of the state. The newly gained mobility made Eagle River more accessible for tourists and helped the logging town transition into a popular travel destination.
Ojibwe and Potawatomi settlements predate the establishment of the town, and Native Americans continue to reside in the area. For the most part, however, the local newspapers neglected to print the news of these communities. Only occasionally did incidents involving American Indian community members appear in print, such as a feud between Ojibwe and Potawatomi locals that turned deadly on January 22, 1893.
The year 1893 also saw the first issue of the Eagle River Democrat. Among its editors was James R. Howe, who would later become a prominent newspaper publisher in Milwaukee. Three years later, under the editorial leadership of C. Francis Colman, the title was changed to Vilas County News. On August 10, 1896, the editor assured his readers in the first issue published under the new name that the renaming by no means reflected a change of political affiliation but was rather a deliberate effort to unite…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Eagle River, Wisconsin, 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