Browning Chief (Browning, Mont.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
659 issues from 1941 to 1953, published in Browning, Montana, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Glacier County Chief first published in Browning, Montana, in 1931, but the earliest existing issue is the April 6, 1934, issue published by D. T. A. Mackintosh. Jack Duncan, who previously worked at newspapers in Butte, Lewistown, and Denton, took over as publisher on May 4, 1934, adding “devoted to the interests of Glacier County” to the masthead. The Glacier County Chief lived up to its billing, covering local and county news, as well as federal issues affecting the region, including the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934. The paper also gave significant coverage to the Blackfeet Nation, where Browning resides, publishing stories on tribal council meetings, tribal fairs and rodeos, and other local reservation news.
Duncan changed the name of the paper to the Browning Chief with the January 3, 1941, issue, writing that the public “invariably calls it the Browning Chief, and outside correspondence is addressed 9 out of 10 times to the Browning Chief.” He operated the paper until his death in June 1941. His wife, Annie, took over and ran the Chief until she passed away in February 1945.
Following the Duncans, Edna M. Yates briefly served as publisher of the Chief before John E. Davies purchased the paper in 1945. He operated it for nearly eight years, continuing to focus on local, county, and Blackfeet news. He sold the Chief to Thomas A. Busey in 1953. Busey came to Browning with more than 40 years of newspaper experience in Montana, including as publisher of the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Browning, 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