Gunnison News-Champion (Gunnison, Colo.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
990 issues from 1905 to 1924, published in Gunnison, Colorado, digitised for Chronicling America.
Gunnison County and the town of Gunnison, incorporated in March 1880, are located in the mountainous region of west-central Colorado, which is the ancestral home of the Parianuches and Tabeguache (later called the Uncompahgres) Ute people. White settlement of the area was predicated initially on the discovery of placer gold, and later on silver and coal mining. As mining petered out in the late nineteenth century, ranching and farming became the prominent activities in the area, activities that resulted in the removal of the Tabeguache Utes to the Uintah-Ouray Reservation in Utah, opening up the area to white agriculture. The town of Gunnison was an important stop along the Denver & Rio Grande railroad.
The publication history of the Gunnison News-Champion begins with the founding of the Gunnison News by Colonel W.H.F. Hall in April 1880. The News folded in 1891, but Joseph Heiner revived the paper in the same year. In December 1899, Henry Lake, Sr. purchased the paper and then leased out ownership to Ellis R. Lore. By 1900, however, Lore lost the lease due to monetary constraints and mounting debts. The Gunnison Tribune reported that, “In order to protect his plant from E. R. Lore’s many creditors, Henry F. Lake yesterday closed Mr. Lore out and took charge of the Gunnison News” (December 21, 1900). Lake went so far as to hire local teamsters to move the printing equipment to another building while Lore was “in his cups” (Colorado Newspapers: A History & Inventory,…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Gunnison, 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