The Guthrie Daily Leader (Guthrie, Okla.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
8,808 issues from 1893 to 1922, published in Guthrie, Oklahoma, digitised for Chronicling America.
In 1892, cowboy turned teacher, Roy Hoffman, established the Daily Leader in Guthrie, Logan County, Oklahoma Territory. One year later, Hoffman added the town’s name to the title. The Guthrie Daily Leader quickly became the leading newspaper in the territory. Within two years, the paper boasted 4,098 daily subscriptions and adopted the motto, “Official Organ of Oklahoma Democracy.”
On March 23, 1889, President Benjamin Harrison signed a proclamation opening the Unassigned Lands in Indian Territory to non-Indian settlers. On April 22, 1889, approximately fifty thousand Land Run participants staked their claims on the prairie. Several towns, including Guthrie, appeared overnight. In 1890, Guthrie was designated as the territorial capital. The town had grown to over 5,000 residents and supported eight newspapers. Hoffman created the Democratic Daily Leader in response to the top- selling paper of the time, Frank Greer’s decidedly Republican Oklahoma State Capital.
In 1902, Leslie Niblack bought the Leader from Hoffman. Niblack had started at the Leader in 1893, having previously worked as a reporter for the Kentucky newspaper, Louisville Courier-Journal. By 1906, the Leader’s circulation had risen to 10,570, and the paper was a member of the Associated Press. That same year, the Guthrie Daily Leader beat out the Oklahoma State Capital to become the official organ of the 1906 Oklahoma Constitutional Convention held in Guthrie. Statehood was proclaimed in November of 1907.…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Guthrie, Oklahoma, 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