The Delta Independent (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,801 issues from 1886 to 1925, published in Delta, Colorado, digitised for Chronicling America.
The inaugural issue of the Delta Chief, the first venture of its kind in Delta County, Colorado, was published on March 7, 1883, in a “little shack” where, according to an account that appeared years afterward in the Steamboat Pilot, “the news man was owner, proprietor, editor, reporter, printer, fire-boss, cook and everything was housed in one room.” The “news man” at the Delta Chief was Robert D. Blair, “genial, big hearted rotound [sic] Bob,” a well-seasoned journalist who started his career as a typesetter on the Denver Tribune and then the Denver Republican. Blair wrote in the first issue that the Delta Chief would “endeavor to give our patrons a readable paper…to work for the best interests of the country, representing no clique nor party.” He also added, “[i]n politics the paper will be neutral, but will have an opinion on all questions of interest to our people,” although the Delta Chief was later listed as Republican in N.W. Ayer & Son’s American Newspaper Annual and Directory. It was described as a “neat, sensible sort of paper from a business standpoint” and Blair’s editorial style as “promiscuous,” reminding one of the reporters at Leadville’s Carbonate Chronicle of the occasion when Blair “threw three desperadoes down stairs at the [Denver] Tribune office and then fell down on top of them.”
The community of Delta sits in the valley where the Uncompahgre and Gunnison Rivers converge on Colorado’s western slope. Originally called Uncompahgre, it was renamed…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Delta, 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.
- 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