Western Liberal (Lordsburg, N.M.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
936 issues from 1889 to 1918, published in Lordsburg, New Mexico, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Western Liberal was published weekly in Lordsburg, New Mexico, between November 11, 1887, and September 25, 1919. The January 14, 1889, issue stated that a reader could obtain a one-year subscription for $3.00, six months for $1.75, or three months for $1.00. Single copies sold for 10 cents. The subscription rates remained steady through at least July 1916. The paper strongly supported the Democratic Party.
The seat for Hidalgo County, Lordsburg traces its roots to October 18, 1880. A small camp had emerged as the Southern Pacific Railroad reached the area from the west attracting railroad workers and freighters, gamblers, cowboys, merchants, and journalists. It is unclear how Lordsburg acquired its name, although several competing stories are regularly told. Some say that a man named “Lordsburg” owned restaurants along the railroad and that the town took his name. Others maintain that “Lordsburg” was an engineer and head of a construction crew at the camp. Most believe, however, that the town was named for Dr. Charles Lord, a New Yorker who moved west during the Civil war and who became a prominent businessman in Tucson, opening a distribution and banking business, Lord and Williams. When freight handlers at the nameless railroad camp in southern New Mexico came across goods from Lord and Williams, they shouted, “Lords,” for short, which the camp workers all understood to mean that the items belonged to Lord and Williams. Eventually, the camp took on the name…
- Genres
- Westerns, News
- Published in
- Lordsburg, New Mexico, United States
- 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