The Holly Chieftain (Holly, Colo.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,398 issues from 1897 to 1924, published in Holly, Colorado, digitised for Chronicling America.
Holly, Colorado, home of the The Holly Chieftain, is in Prowers County, on the eastern plains of the state. Before white settlement, the area, which includes the Arkansas River valley, was the homelands of the Comanche people. Powers County was also home to the Kiowa and the Cheyenne by the early nineteenth century. The area around the town of Holly was settled by prominent cattleman Hiram S. Holly in the 1870s. The Holly Ranch became a center for trading, and the resulting community would eventually become the town of Holly, officially incorporated in 1903. With the end of the cattle industry in Prowers County following devastating blizzards in the winters of 1885-86 and 1886-87, agriculture became the primary industry, particularly the cultivation of sugar beets.
Holly’s first and only newspaper, The Holly Chieftain, was founded in 1897 by H.W. Milford, a Kansas newspaper publisher who picked up and moved his plant across state lines to Holly. The first edition of the weekly Chieftain was issued on February 11, 1897. The Pueblo Chieftain noted that it “had a curiosity to see its little namesake, the Holly Chieftain. It has made its appearance in the mails, and is all right, a Chieftain not to be ashamed of. The paper is newsy and readable” (February 25, 1897).
In December 1905, H.W. Milford retired after publishing the Chieftain for eight years, selling it to J.M. Miner. Miner’s wife was steadily engaged in the business of running the Chieftain, so much so that the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Holly, 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