Semi-Weekly Herald (Durango, Colo.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,040 issues from 1907 to 1917, published in Durango, Colorado, digitised for Chronicling America.
Located in southwest Colorado, Durango is the seat of La Plata County. The area was originally occupied by Ancestral Pueblo peoples and later by the Weenuche, Capote, and Muache Utes. White settlement of the area began in the 1860s after small gold deposits were discovered, and by the 1870s there were multiple gold and silver mining operations in the surrounding San Juan Mountains. Durango became the major supply, processing, and shipping depot for the mines.
The first iteration of the Durango Herald was established by Jerome L. Marsh and his son, George, in July 1881. The Lake City Mining Register of July 15, 1881, complimented the paper as a “handsome, five-column quarto” that gave “evidence of being in the hands of gentlemen who understand the newspaper business.” C. Sum Nichols purchased a half-interest in the Herald in January 1887. Jerome Marsh and Nichols published the Republican-leaning Herald together as a daily, but by May of the same year, Nichols’s name alone was printed as the president and manager of the paper. The Pueblo [Colorado] Daily Chieftain reported that there had been “trouble in the camp between Nichols and Marsh” and intimated that Marsh had “fired himself” (May 6, 1887). The Gunnison Review-Press of July 9, 1887, reprinted from the exchange this harsh assessment of C. Sum Nichols’s management of the Herald.
The Durango Herald will abandon its Associated Press report … and will go on robbing the Denver papers like the rest of its more esteemed…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Durango, 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