The Dolores Star (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-Current
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1,202 issues from 1901 to 1924, published in Dolores, Colorado, digitised for Chronicling America.
Dolores, Colorado is located in Montezuma County, situated on the lands of the Ancestral Puebloans and the Ute peoples. The area was settled by white miners in the 1870s, but by the late nineteenth century, cattle ranching was the dominant economic activity in the county. Dolores was established as a station on the Rio Grande Southern Railroad in 1891, which provided a further boost to the county’s economy.
The town’s first paper, the Dolores Herald, was published for only one year, between 1896 and 1897. R.B. Hawkins, who had been previously at the Telluride Daily Journal, took over the defunct Herald and founded the Silver Star. Hawkins printed the following in his first issue, on April 8, 1897:
We will try to keep the Silver Star above petty politics, and in local affairs our policy will be to support the best man for the place, without regards to politics … We are not crazy on the temperance question … was never convicted of stealing anything, have not particular brand of religion to introduce, believe in law and order, and will endeavor to keep at least one eye on the Golden Rule.
The Daily Journal of Telluride described the first issues as “gotten up splendidly, both from a typographical and news standpoint, reflecting much credit upon the editor and publisher” (April 10, 1897). Six months later, in October 1897, the Montezuma Journal of Cortez, Colorado reported that Hawkins had “thrown up the sponge” and Joe DeWitt, formerly of the La Plata Miner, purchased the…
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- Dolores, Colorado, United States
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- English
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- Chronicling America
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