The Elbert County Tribune (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,026 issues from 1898 to 1920, published in Elbert, Colorado, digitised for Chronicling America.
Located along the line of the Denver & New Orleans Railroad (D&NO), Elbert, Colorado was the home of the Western Recorder, which was founded in late 1897 by J. Ford Crissinger and M. Scott Chenoweth. The Elbert County Banner, published in nearby Elizabeth, described it as an “eight column folio, ably edited, full of local news, and … an honor to the town in which it is published.” The Recorder featured illustrations by Chenoweth which were met with mixed reviews. The Republican Standard enthused that the “cartoons and portraits [are] several bounds ahead of country journalism in general” while the Castle Rock Journal noted that “some illustrations … look like they were cut from a pine board with a table knife.” The Record picked up subscribers, noting 28 new subscribers in one day upon their three month anniversary. “Pretty good daily nourishment for an infant three months old,” Crissinger and Chenoweth printed. Boosting their “infant” paper, the editors continued, “if a person in the backwoods without any other medium than the Recorder had carefully read the editorials he would have a fair idea of what is going on in the world.”
In June 1898, Crissinger and Chenoweth sold the Recorder to J.B. King of the Elbert County Tribune and the Recorder merged with the Tribune, under which title it was issued. The Tribune, itself, was founded in 1884 or 1885. King took over editorial responsibilities of the paper in 1887 and its management in 1889. In January 1901, J.W. Summersett…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Elbert, 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