Bismarck Daily Tribune (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.])
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
5,233 issues from 1884 to 1916, published in Bismarck, North Dakota, digitised for Chronicling America.
On June 5, 1873, a Washington hand-set press arrived on the first train to Bismarck, Dakota Territory. Col. Clement A. Lounsberry, a Civil War veteran and an experienced editor with the Minneapolis Tribune, immediately set out to publish the first issue of what would become the longest running newspaper in what is now North Dakota. The first issue of the Bismarck Tribune, dated July 11, 1873, actually appeared on July 6. The paper was published as a seven-column weekly. The title changed first to the Bismarck Weekly Tribune in 1875, when it began publishing a second edition, and then to the Bismarck Tri-weekly Tribune, from November 1875 through April 1881. In 1884, the title reverted to the original Bismarck Weekly Tribune. The paper continued through 1943, with the exception of the years 1919 to 1926 when the weekly publication was suspended, although the daily edition continued.
A significant event in the history of the Bismarck Weekly Tribune came in 1876 as the Seventh Cavalry, stationed at Fort Abraham Lincoln, across the Missouri River from Bismarck, embarked upon a summer military campaign to return the Sioux Indians to their reservations. General George Armstrong Custer and his regiment of the Seventh Cavalry were wiped out on the Little Big Horn River in Montana. Among those killed at the battle was Mark Kellogg, reporter for the Tribune and the New York Herald. When news of Custer’s defeat reached Bismarck via the steamboat Far West, the Tribune‘s editor Clement…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Bismarck, North Dakota, 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