The Julesburg Grit-Advocate (Julesburg, Colo.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
843 issues from 1907 to 1924, published in Big Springs, Nebraska, digitised for Chronicling America.
Julesburg, Colorado is located in Sedgwick County in the northeastern-most corner of the state. Before White settlement, the area was inhabited by the tribes of the northern plains, including the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Kiowa. Julesburg became a way stop for White Americans crossing the plains on the Overland Trail, as well as a stop for the Pony Express. Tensions between White settlers and Indigenous people erupted when troops under John Chivington slaughtered 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians–mostly women, children, and the elderly–at Sand Creek in November 1864. In retaliation, a force of some 1,000 Lakota, Cheyenne, and Northern Arapaho raided and razed Julesburg in January and February 1865. Julesburg residents saw three more iterations and relocations of the town, precipitated by its function as a Wells Fargo stagecoach stop and the presence of the Union Pacific railroad. By 1886, the present-day location of Julesburg was established.
The Grit-Advocate was born from the merging of two newspapers, the Julesburg Grit, founded in 1893 and owned by H.C. “Skip” McNew, and The julesburg Advocate, founded in 1896 by L.E. Loveland. George M. Braxton bought the Advocate on July 25, 1899 and purchased the Grit in November of the same year. The newly merged Grit-Advocate published its first issue on November 17, 1899. The combined sheet was a four-column tabloid printed on a job press, as neither the Advocate nor the Grit outfit had a newspaper press. Braxton boasted that the new…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Big Springs, Nebraska, 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