The Bemidji Daily Pioneer (Bemidji, Minn.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
5,828 issues from 1904 to 1922, published in Bemidji, Minnesota, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Bemidji Pioneer began publication in 1896 in Beltrami County, one of the last “frontier” areas in Minnesota. Because of Bemidji’s location in the northern part of the state, settlement did not begin until late in the 19th century. Chief Bemidji and his band of Ojibwe Indians lived in the area, as did hunters, loggers, and some scattered settlers. The township and city were named for the Ojibwe leader. In 1888 two brothers, George Earl and Merian Ellsworth Carson, built a trading house to serve those living in the area. Merian would later marry Bahgahmaushequay (a.k.a. Mary), Chief Bemidji’s daughter.
In March of 1896, the Bemidji Pioneer, a weekly, was established by Edward Kaiser. As with most papers of the time, it was a booster of the community; it was also Republican in political stance. On April 20, 1903, the Daily Pioneer was launched. It changed its name to the Bemidji Daily Pioneer in 1904 and was designated “the official county and city paper.”
The Bemidji Daily Pioneer began as a six-column, four-page afternoon daily paper (except for Sundays and some holidays). Published by the Pioneer Publishing Company, the Pioneer included city ordinances, license applications, articles of incorporation, as well as local news, business advertisements, editorials, and church news. It also published the proceedings of the Beltrami County Board of Commissioners, county financial statements, and the proceedings of the district court. The paper covered several murder trials…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Bemidji, Minnesota, 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