The Keota News (Keota, Weld County, Colo.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
595 issues from 1911 to 1922, published in Keota, Colorado, digitised for Chronicling America.
Keota, Colorado, in the northeastern grasslands of the state, was founded out of the sales of homesteads proved up by Mary and Eva Beardsley in 1888. The Beardsley sisters sold their claims to the Lincoln Land and Cattle Company in 1889. In the same year, Alva C. Hamilton, speculating on an influx of people in the new settlement, opened the Keota post office but closed it only four months later.
Keota experienced an early boom of population in 1891, with 64 homesteaders—51 men and 13 women—moving there to prove up claims obtained under the 1862 Homestead Act. By 1909 the post office reopened, and in 1910 Clyde Leslie Stanley moved to Keota to homestead. Stanley brought substantial newspaper experience, having published The Fairplay Flume, The Erie News, and The Lafayette News, and in 1911 he began publication of the Keota News, with former postmaster Hamilton acting as editor. By 1913, Stanley was the sole editor, publisher, and owner, as well as the proprietor of the general store and the land commissioner issuing homestead claims under the Enlarged Homestead Act. Later he became publisher of the Wayside Press and other magazines.
The Keota News was classified in N.W. Ayer & Son’s American Newspaper Annual and Directory as a “local” paper. Its local flavor was clear from the first item in the first issue, which noted that “the editor of the News is a homesteader and will have to drive to and from the claim for work.” From that first issue of May 26, 1911, the paper was…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Keota, Colorado, 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