The Nezperce Herald (Nezperce, Idaho)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,018 issues from 1901 to 1924, published in Nezperce, Idaho, digitised for Chronicling America.
The area around Nezperce, Idaho was first inhabited by the Niimíipuu people, also known as the Nez Perce. In 1877, the Nez Perce were forced on to reservation lands in violation of the 1855 Treaty of Walla Walla. In 1895 a federal law passed that opened the land on the Nez Perce Reservation to non-native homesteaders. William H. Hammill helped plot the location of the Nezperce townsite and homesteaded the area himself. In 1901 the town was incorporated, taking its name from the land’s first inhabitants. The new town grew quickly, soon boasting a store, barber shop, restaurant, hotel, post office, and a newspaper, the Nezperce Herald.
The Nezperce Herald published in Nezperce, Idaho, from 1900-1957. The Herald published weekly on Thursdays with eight pages and six columns. As the official paper of Lewis County, it published legal notices in addition to other local coverage. The Herald chronicled significant regional events, like the evolution of Nez Perce, Shoshone, Clearwater, and Lewis counties over time and the resulting political battles. Local social news was covered in the Herald in addition to local church notices and school happenings. The towns of Nezperce, Ilo, Lewiston, Kamiah, Wallace, Mullen, Cottonwood, Greer, and Alpine all received coverage in the Herald. Some news of the Nez Perce Reservation was reported, but coverage focused more on the land and less on its inhabitants. State politics figured prominently in the Herald‘s columns. Recurring columns included…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Nezperce, Idaho, 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