Wood River Times (Hailey, Idaho)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
3,462 issues from 1882 to 1893, published in Hailey, Idaho, digitised for Chronicling America.
Theophile Edelman Picotte first published the Wood River Times on June 15, 1881, in Hailey, Idaho. It began as a weekly, but within 11 months expanded to a “daily” publication, Sundays excluded, also under the masthead Wood River Times. Picotte, a native of Montreal, learned the printing trade in New York then moved on to Cincinnati, New Orleans, Texas, Denver, and Nevada. Picotte’s Times, a Republican paper, was the third newspaper to be published in Idaho’s Wood River Valley, the first being the Democratic Wood River News in Bellevue and the second being the Republican Wood River Miner, also of Hailey. The mining rush in the Wood River region attracted multiple other printers and prompted some very lively competition among them. Eleven papers started in this time period, but only four remained by 1890 when Idaho achieved statehood.
The daily Wood River Times was four pages with six columns, and its news was received through telegraph transmission to Blackfoot, Idaho, and then by stage to Hailey. Picotte promised the paper by six o’clock in the evening and distributed it through the Wood River Valley communities of Bellevue, Bullion, Broadford, and Ketchum. The paper covered “all local happenings of general interest, as well as the most reliable reports obtainable of the yield of our mines, smelters, and mills.” Much of its content related to mining claims, including patents and forfeitures. The Times also covered regional news from the towns of Boise and Blackfoot, as…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Hailey, 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