La Junta Tribune (La Junta, Bent 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.
1,494 issues from 1898 to 1917, published in La Junta, Colorado, digitised for Chronicling America.
The La Junta Tribune of La Junta, Colorado, began publication in 1881 or 1882. The exact date is unknown, as the only remaining copy of its first issue has long since disappeared. The founder of the paper, J.C. Denny, besides being the proprietor and editor, was also the station agent, telegraph operator, attorney-at-law, and the first mayor of the small railroad town situated along the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe lines in Otero County. Denny began publishing the weeklyTribune on an old army printing press in a former Santa Fe Railroad freight depot. The paper was briefly suspended in 1882, but by 1883 it was being published by Editor Nelson H. Bowman. The latter took charge of the Tribune at the insistence of T.J. Hickman and J.C. Jones, who held the mortgage on the paper, for the purpose of boosting Hickman and his friends into political office. Bowman expanded the Tribune‘s plant and continued as publisher until 1886.
In that year, G.D. Phillips purchased the paper, material, and subscription list for $1200. Boosterism was the tone of the Tribune under Phillips, who “never missed an opportunity to set forth the natural advantages of the Arkansas valley, its fertile soil, irrigation resources, abundant sunshine and pure air…and its comparative freedom from destructive storms and cyclones.” In April 1887, the paper was sold to A.J. Johnson and W.S. English, but by June 1888, Phillips repurchased his interest from Johnson and Phillips and English acted as co-editors.…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- La Junta, 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