The Pioneer Express (Pembina, Dakota [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.
1,782 issues from 1883 to 1922, published in Pembina, North Dakota, digitised for Chronicling America.
The premier issue of the Pioneer Express of Pembina, Dakota Territory, dated April 20, 1883, carried congratulations from newspapers on both sides of the Dakota-Manitoba border. Previously, Pembina was served by two weeklies. Prince Albert Gatchell and Mark A. Brown produced the Pembina Pioneer on a Washington hand press beginning in 1879; they claimed it was the first paper published in northern Dakota Territory, and the second in what would become North Dakota. Robert H. Young’s Northern Express started in Drayton in 1881, but would relocate to Pembina one year later. Young bought out Gatchell and christened the combined paper the Pioneer Express. At its birth, the Express boasted a circulation larger than any other weekly in northern Dakota, and described its style as “newsy without being trashy, readable without being sensational, instructive without being dull.” In October 1883, it had expanded its coverage to Pembina, Cavalier, and Rolette counties. By January 1884, the Pioneer Express claimed over 1,000 subscribers in Pembina County, and regularly published news from Walhalla, Bathgate, Drayton, and Cavalier, as well as international coverage from Emerson, Manitoba.
A double edition from May 8, 1885, described the history of Pembina County and city and profiled many of the area’s businesses and prominent citizens. Flattering descriptions lauded Dakota Territory’s agricultural output and educational institutions and its displays at the New Orleans World’s Fair,…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Pembina, 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