The Caldwell Tribune (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho])
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,992 issues from 1883 to 1924, published in Caldwell, Idaho, digitised for Chronicling America.
Caldwell originated as a tiny railroad town in 1883, seven years before Idaho achieved statehood. The Idaho and Oregon Land Improvement Company, an organization closely tied to the Oregon Short Line and Union Pacific Railroads, owned the town site and was responsible for its development. To give Caldwell a promotional push, the general manager and vice president of the Land Company, Robert E. Strahorn, sent to Omaha for a printing press and chose a reporter by the name of William J. Cuddy to publish a local newspaper. The Caldwell Tribune began printing in December 1883. It was a four-page, six-column journal published weekly on Saturdays.
Committed to the Land Company’s desire to develop the new town, the Tribune stated on page three of the January 26, 1884 issue the wish for “thousands of others to come share … the inevitable fruits of a good, earnest fight for the development of Idaho and the commercial, social, and political supremacy of Caldwell.” Although Caldwell’s population was a mere 500, the Tribune optimistically wrote in that same issue that the town, located 30 miles from Boise, was “destined to be the commercial center of all the vast region between Salt Lake and Portland.” An article published in the Wood River News-Miner complained that the word “Caldwell” appeared 187 times in the first issue of the Tribune.
Throughout its history, the Tribune was an independent newspaper. It covered local Caldwell news as well as regional news of Boise, other farming…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Caldwell, 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