Mountain Home Maverick (Mountain Home, Idaho)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
275 issues from 1906 to 1911, published in Mountain Home, Idaho, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Idaho and Oregon Land Improvement Company developed the town of Mountain Home along the Oregon Short Line Railroad. Mountain Home was the main shipping point for minerals coming out of the mines of Rocky Bar and Atlanta, Idaho. The area also had a robust ranching economy focused on sheep and wool.
The Mountain Home Maverick was established after the Mountain Home Publishing Association purchased the “business, subscription list, and goodwill” of the Elmore Bulletin in May 1906. The new name was important to the owners and the editor, James W. Connella, as it signified a clean slate and disassociated the new paper from past opinions of the Bulletin. The Maverick published weekly on Thursdays with eight pages and six columns. Special features in the Maverick included “Talk of the Town,” which detailed local social happenings, “School Notes,” which described the news of the local schools, and “Agriculture Department,” which explored farming topics. The Maverick also covered news of the Mountain Home area’s mines, railroads, and churches regularly and extensively under varying column titles. Conella was the paper’s first editor, followed by L.W. Everson in 1907, and Karl H.S. Hougen in 1908. The Maverick’s published was known as the Mountain Home Publishing Association until 1909, when it changed its name to the Elmore Publishing Company. In 1910, Hougen took over publishing the paper and Truxton Talbot became editor. In 1911 Hougen was listed as the paper’s sole editor…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Mountain Home, Idaho, 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