The Glenwood Post (Glenwood Springs, Colo.) 1897-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,089 issues from 1903 to 1925, published in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Glenwood Post began its publication life as The Glenwood Post and Weekly Ledger on January 2, 1897. It was one of many newspapers that tried to establish itself in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, a mountain resort town, owing to its proximity to natural hot springs around which tourism thrived. When the Glenwood Post and Weekly Ledger published its first edition in 1897, it noted metaphorically that the journalistic graveyard of Glenwood Springs was “full of editorial tombstones on which are engraved significant epitaphs of no uncertain meaning. We visited these graves and studied the epitaphs and became convinced that the time was ripe for another venture.” C.L. Bennett and W.J. Wright were the editors and proprietors of the new venture, which had taken over the plant of the former Weekly Ledger. C.L. Bennett was the principal of Glenwood Springs schools, prior to entering into newspaper publishing, although The Daily Sentinel of Grand Junction described him as a “newspaper writer of considerable force and experience” (January 4, 1897). According to contemporary newspapers, the Glenwood Post and Weekly Ledger was notable for its use of all-home print (not employing pre-printed patent sheets), and it was described as democratic in national politics and independent in county affairs. The paper shortened its name to the Glenwood Post on July 17, 1897.
Another Glenwood Springs newspaper, The Avalanche Echo announced the “annual change of ownership of The Glenwood Post” had…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Glenwood Springs, 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