Press and Daily Dakotaian (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.])
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
2,699 issues from 1880 to 1889, published in Yankton, South Dakota, digitised for Chronicling America.
The gold fever of the 1870s made Yankton, South Dakota, with its railroad terminus and a bustling river port, the principal supply depot for miners. George Kingsburg and Wheeler S. Bowen decided to publish a daily version of the Yankton Black Hiller with the miners as their target audience. Kingsburg and Bowen had been partners since 1873 on the weekly Yankton Press and Union and Dakotaian.
Their daily paper helped encourage the campaign to obtain the new “El Dorado,” the Black Hills, from the Native Americans. The Yankton Black Hiller was so well received that the owners/writers launched on April 26, 1875, the Yankton Daily Press and Dakotaian. The new paper appeared every morning except on Mondays and consisted of four six-column pages. Beginning on June 7, 1875, it was published every evening, excluding Sundays. On November 5, 1875, the Yankton Daily Press and Dakotaian was renamed the Daily Press and Dakotaian. On May 26, 1880, the paper expanded to seven columns with four to six pages, as well as adopting a new header. Its new title, the Press and Daily Dakotaian,debuted on June 13, 1880; the spelling was changed to Dakotan on April 26, 1889.
The Daily Press and Dakotaian reported on happenings in Yankton and the surrounding area as well as news from larger cities such as Sioux Falls, Sioux City, Chicago, and St. Louis. It was one of the many papers that covered the death of the Governor William A. Howard on April 10, 1880, an event which shocked the entire…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Yankton, South Dakota, 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