Cañon City Record (Cañon City, Colo.) 1883-192?
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
749 issues from 1897 to 1911, published in Canon City, Colorado, digitised for Chronicling America.
Cañon City, located in Fremont County, Colorado, was established in 1859 and thrived in the 1860s as a stop along the way to the gold diggings in Leadville. In 1868, Cañon City was designated as the location for the territorial and, later, the state penitentiary, which opened in 1871. The Cañon City Record began as the Cañon City Avalanche in 1875 by Dr. Isaac E. Thayer. The paper was purchased in April 1878 by brothers H.M. and Saxe Cramer and renamed The Fremont County Record. In 1880, H.T. Blake bought the Record and Saxe Cramer stayed on as the local editor. Judge Wilbur B. Felton purchased the entire interest in the paper from Blake in 1883 and changed its name to the Cañon City Record. Previous to running the Record, Felton had been editor and publisher of the Saguache Chronicle. He was also a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1875, a charter member of the Colorado State Press Association, and warden of the state penitentiary. Art Frisbie owned the Record between 1892 and 1895. According to Colorado Newspapers: A History & Inventory, 1859-2000 (Jane C. Harper, Craig W. Leavitt, and Thomas J. Noel), Guy Urban Hardy, a reporter for the Record, said that Frisbie, an aspiring politician, kept an “S.A. Book–‘ satisfaction assured’ for polite reference, in which he kept the record of those who had done him wrong.”
Hardy went on to become editor and publisher of the Record in 1895 until his death in 1947. Telluide’s The Daily Journal enthused that under…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Canon City, Colorado, 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.
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- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
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- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
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- Library of Congress