Rawlins Republican (Rawlins, Wyo.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,607 issues from 1901 to 1930, published in Rawlins, Wyoming, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Rawlins Republican began publishing in January of 1890, six months before Wyoming was granted statehood. The first owner and editor, H. B. Fetz, released the paper weekly with eight pages. The Republican included articles that reported on the local happenings of Rawlins, with a focus on the growth of the town and state as well as the condition of mining and ranching enterprises. National and global news also received attention in the Republican; detailed articles about national and local government happenings were included in every issue. The Republican‘s holistic approach to the news is best expressed by the call included in early issues, “correspondence from the different localities over the counties are solicited, and especially news mining and stock items. Send in your manuscripts.”
George W. Perry purchased the Republican from Fetz in 1895, and took over as its publisher in May. Perry had been a news correspondent in Cheyenne before purchasing the Republican, and on May 2, 1895, an article of praise and congratulations from other Wyoming newspaper editors to Perry was printed. After Perry took over the Republican, the page length of the paper varied from between four and eight pages. Perry began to publish the paper biweekly in 1898, and renamed the paper to the Rawlins Semi-Weekly Republican, a name it would go by until 1901 when it was changed back to the Rawlins Republican. On January 25, 1902, Perry published a special illustrated 32-page edition of the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Rawlins, 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