The Hope Pioneer (Hope, N.D.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,977 issues from 1883 to 1922, published in Hope, North Dakota, digitised for Chronicling America.
The history of the Hope (North Dakota) Pioneer is nearly as complicated as the history of its hometown. The weekly, described as the only paper in Steele County upon the county’s organization in 1883, actually began publication in Minneapolis in 1881 as a promotional tool for the Red River Valley Land Company. When Hope was founded in Dakota Territory in 1882, the paper relocated there in April. Hope had the unusual privilege of being the seat of two counties, Griggs and Steele, before losing the prize to Sherbrooke. In 1918, the Pioneer promoted a campaign to reclaim the county seat for Hope, but both towns lost to Finley. Regardless of Hope’s official status, the Pioneer remained the official journal of Steele County. An ambitious seven-column publication reaching an initial circulation of only 450, no news item was too insignificant for the front page. Articles about prominent citizens afflicted with boils, frostbite, or horse bites were early features, but wheat prices were always given priority.
Editor R.H. Simpson bought the underperforming Steele County Gazette in January 1886, and combined it with the Pioneer, filling Gazette subscriptions with issues of his paper. The nearby Mayville Weekly Tribune applauded this development, writing one good, clean paper is worth more to a town than two or three scabby half-starved looking sheets. Many more editors would come and go over the 82-year history of the Pioneer, including George H. Iseminger from 1889 to 1885, followed…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Hope, North Dakota, 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