The Ronan Pioneer (Ronan, Mont.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,329 issues from 1911 to 1938, published in Ronan, Montana, digitised for Chronicling America.
The weekly the Ronan Pioneer began publishing under the direction of Coker Rathbone on May 12, 1910. E. H. Rathbone joined his brother in 1911, having previously published the Fergus County Republican, the Hardin Tribune, and the Sanders County Ledger. E. H. Rathbone took full ownership in 1915, and he and later his wife, Margaret, and son, Justus, published the Pioneer for more than a decade, selling the paper to John Rhone in 1928.
In the first extant issue, February 3, 1911, the newspaper touted the town of Ronan’s location “in the heart of the Flathead Indian Reservation” in Montana. The location of Ronan is significant, as early issues of the newspaper advised land seekers on how to lease unallotted tribal lands and encouraged area residents to petition Senator Joseph Dixon to both open nearby timber lands to homesteading and to provide federal support for regional irrigation projects. The Ronan Pioneer also advocated for the creation of a new county beginning in 1910 and culminating in 1923 when the state carved Lake County out of Flathead and Missoula Counties.
Rhone sold the Pioneer to Roy H. Loman in 1930, and members of the Loman family expanded the paper’s reach and published almost every issue over the next four decades. In the January 3, 1963 issue, Ray M. Loman announced the acquisition of the St. Ignatius Post and its merger into the Pioneer. In late-1969, the publisher began printing the Hot Springs Citizen in tandem with the Ronan Pioneer to save time and…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Ronan, 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