The Buffalo Voice (Buffalo, Johnson County [Wyo.])
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,329 issues from 1890 to 1925, published in Buffalo, Wyoming, digitised for Chronicling America.
In 1883, Hugh R. Morgan moved from Cheyenne, Wyoming to the growing town of Buffalo to begin operating a newspaper. Morgan arrived and established himself there, however T.V. McCandlish took over the operation, and the first issue of the Buffalo Echo appeared on August 2. Due to health concerns, McCandlish went on to sell the paper to J.B. Morrow in November of the same year. In 1886, Morrow sold it to Thomas J. Bouton. Before Bouton sold the Echo in 1892, he purchased the printing plant used to create the Big Horn Sentinel when it ended its run in 1889.
After Bouton ceased publishing the Echo in 1892, the plant used to print the paper was sold to O.H. “Jack” Flagg, a major participant in the Johnson County War after ending up on the Wyoming Stock Growers Association’s death list. The paper was renamed as the People’s Voice, and continued under that name until December 11, 1897, when it was changed to the Buffalo Voice with no change in content. In November 1902, the Voice Publishing Company was created by a group of Democrats in Johnson County who purchased the Buffalo Voice from its editor and publisher Gustave E. A. Moeller, and claimed to have the “largest paid circulation of any paper in Northern Wyoming.” The Voice Publishing Company hired attorney and Sheridan newspaperman Hayden M. White as editor and business manager for the Voice. White sold his stock in the Voice Publishing Company and left his position at the paper in December 1919, due to failing health.…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Buffalo, Wyoming, 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