The Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,609 issues from 1914 to 1920, published in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Oklahoma City Times first appeared December 29, 1888. Hamlin Whitmore Sawyer was editor-publisher and B. R. Harrington worked as reporter. The first issues had to be printed in a neighboring state, because it was illegal for non-Indians to establish a business within the Oklahoma Territory. The copy was written by Harrington in Oklahoma City, which was then just a railroad depot, and sent to Wichita, Kansas, for printing. The weekly circulated worldwide, through the Oklahoma City Post Office.
Familiar with the territory, Harrington created prolific material for the Times. Newspapers in Chicago, Kansas City, St. Louis, and other cities, quoted from the Oklahoma City Times. The novelty of a newspaper from Indian country spiked curiosity. Thirty days after the first issue, the Times circulated through every state and territory in the Union. Subscriptions reached as far as Canada and Great Britain.
The paper’s success spurred Sawyer and Harrington to move the printing plant to Oklahoma City and to work illegally at the depot. Unfortunately, on February 10, 1889, Lieutenant Malcomb and a company of U.S. troops raided Harrington’s plant. It was moved to Purcell, in the Chickasaw Nation, and later back to Wichita. Harrington maintained contact with several sources in the Oklahoma City area. Local news was furnished regularly and the Times scarcely missed an issue.
The Times returned to Oklahoma City after the Run of 1889, when thousands of settlers occupied Oklahoma…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Oklahoma City, 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