Pueblo Chieftain (Pueblo, Colo.) 1889-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
438 issues from 1921 to 1922, published in Pueblo, Colorado, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Pueblo Chieftain started publication in 1868 as The Colorado Chieftain. The paper was founded by Michael Beshoar, who served in the Civil War as chief surgeon in the Confederate Army. He was captured by Union soldiers, and as a prisoner of war he assisted the U.S. Army with its wounded. Quitting the army in 1867, he moved to Denver, but found it hostile against Southerners. He continued further south to Pueblo, where he established a medical practice and opened the town’s first drug store, the only one between Denver and Santa Fe, New Mexico. He soon opened another in Trinidad, Colorado, 84 miles south of Pueblo, and made a weekly commute between Pueblo and Trinidad by stagecoach.
Seeing a need in the community for a newspaper, he started the Chieftain, the first newspaper in Southern Colorado. Beshoar purchased a Washington hand press, printing equipment, and paper stock on credit, secured a printer by the name of Sam McBride, and they published the first issue of the Chieftain on June 1, 1868. While Beshoar was a Democrat, the weekly publication was Independent. Beshoar soon realized that he and McBride could not run the entire operation themselves, particularly with the demands of a medical practice, two drugstores, and McBride’s poor health. To assist with the writing of the paper, Beshoar assembled volunteer editorial advisers comprising prominent men from the area. By the end of the year, McBride left the partnership due to health reasons and was replaced by R.M.…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Pueblo, 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