Emmons County Record (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-Current
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1,969 issues from 1884 to 1922, published in Williamsport, North Dakota, digitised for Chronicling America.
Emmons County sits at the south-central edge of North Dakota. The Missouri River, to which the county’s early history is firmly tied, creates its western border. The river’s abundant wildlife, natural resources, and provision of transportation made it essential to Native American settlement for hundreds of years. It was an artery of commerce and remained so with the onset of European settlement. From Fort Benton, Montana, to the Gulf of Mexico, the Missouri brought goods and people to the northern prairie.
The steamboat was the predominant form of transport in the late 1800s, and many of Emmons County’s earliest townships were steamboat landings, such as Glencoe, Livona, Gayton, Emmonsburg, and Winona. Eventually, the steamboat was surpassed by another form of transport, the railroad. With it came rapid settlement. The population in Emmons County jumped from 38 in 1880 to 1,971 in 1890 to 4,349 in 1900. A town’s proximity to the rail line determined its prosperity or demise. Hazelton, Braddock, Strausburg, Hague, and Linton are all still populated today, and all were stops along the Northern Pacific and Soo rail lines, while many other towns are now mere names, memories, and historical footnotes.
With each young prairie town, there usually also came a newspaper. The Emmons County Record is the county’s oldest and longest-running press. Its early history exemplifies the fight for the lifeline of the railroad.
When Emmons County was created in November of 1883, its…
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