Yellowstone Monitor (Glendive, Mont.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
418 issues from 1908 to 1915, published in Glendive, Montana, digitised for Chronicling America.
In the first issue of the Yellowstone Monitor launched in 1905 in Glendive, Montana, the publisher, E.A. Martin, proclaimed the newspaper’s political independence and laid out its publishing philosophy: “We have no special mission, no enemies to punish or friends to reward. This is a business venture, pure and simple.” Under the masthead appeared the motto: “Our Aim: To Publish a Newspaper.” The first issue reflected the community’s interest in farming and ranching. It reported on the availability of irrigated crop land and provided an entire page of cattle and horse brands, proclaiming the value of advertising brands in locating wandering stock. The Monitor also included a regular column entitled “Wibaux News,” which promoted the fledging town of Wibaux as the “gate city” of the Northern Pacific Railway, noting its excellent stock range and the local literary society.
In 1909, the newspaper published an ad for the Lower Yellowstone Water Users Association, which provided irrigation water for over 65,000 acres in Dawson County–a Bureau of Reclamation project involving the expenditure of $1.8 million by the federal government. In a column entitled “Success and Prosperity” the editor declared Dawson County the “land of prosperity with no paupers and [where] everyone’s well fed-where all roads lead downhill to Wibaux.”
By 1912, Glendive was reaping the benefits of the homestead boom. The newspaper touted a visit from the St. Paul symphony and a train spot by William Jennings…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Glendive, Montana, 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