The Hardin Tribune-Herald (Hardin, Mont.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,566 issues from 1934 to 1963, published in Hardin, Montana, digitised for Chronicling America.
In 1907, the Lincoln Land Company platted the town of Hardin on the edge of the Crow Indian Reservation on land open to non-tribal settlement. Although the town did not incorporate until 1911, E. H. Rathbone, whose previous work included founding the Fergus County Republican in Lewistown, Montana, in 1890, published the first issue of the Hardin Tribune on January 10, 1908. Harry A. DeTuncq purchased the paper from Rathbone in August 1909 and ran it for the next nine years.
R. A. Vickers, the Tribune’s editor, bought out DeTuncq in 1918. The next year, the Hardin Herald published its first issue and the small town supported two papers until they merged to form the Hardin Tribune-Herald in 1925. Around the same time, J. E. Patton started another paper in Hardin, the Searchlight. The Tribune-Herald and the Searchlight quickly became rival papers, competing for the Big Horn County printing contract. The competition moved to the courts, where a judge determined that the Tribune-Herald was the only legal bidder for the county contract. The Searchlight ceased publication in 1927, and the Tribune-Herald continued to bring news to the people of Hardin and Big Horn County.
In their early years, the Tribune and Herald focused on local and county news. The weekly paper published articles about county commissioner meetings, school updates, and the growth and development of Hardin mixed with obituaries, as well as local marriage and event announcements. It also reported on national…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Hardin, 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