Walker Lake Bulletin (Hawthorne, Nev.)
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1,618 issues from 1883 to 1923, published in Hawthorne, Nevada, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Walker Lake Bulletin was Hawthorne, Nevada’s major newspaper from 1883 until 1926. The town of Hawthorne was founded by Henry Yerington to serve as the terminus of his narrow-gauge Carson and Colorado Railroad in 1881 and to supply the nearby mining town of Candelaria. Few people moved to the new town near the southern shore of Walker Lake until it became the county seat of Esmeralda County, replacing the dying mining town of Aurora in 1883. Yerington named it after William Hawthorne, a local cattle rancher and justice of the peace.
John M. Campbell began publishing the Bulletin on March 21, 1883. Campbell had previously published the Lyon County Times in Silver City in 1880, moving it to Dayton later that year. He turned the Times over to his partner in 1885 in order to run the Bulletin. The Bulletin was a four-page, weekly newspaper except during the coverage of the national election in 1884, when it was a semi-weekly from April to November. The Bulletin is the early source of information on the Native American Ghost Dance movement, which had its origins with the Northern Paiutes’ holy man Wovoka.
In 1890 Campbell sold the newspaper to his editor Alfred J. McCarthy, who ran the newspaper until 1913 when his son John took over as publisher. Under McCarthy the Bulletin was a leading advocate of the women’s suffrage movement in Nevada. McCarthy’s wife was chairperson of the Mineral County Suffrage Association; their son John, a state assemblyman supported the state’s…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Hawthorne, Nevada, 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