Holbrook Argus (Holbrook, Ariz.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
618 issues from 1900 to 1913, published in Holbrook, Arizona, digitised for Chronicling America.
Established in Holbrook, Arizona, as the Argus on December 12, 1895, the paper became known as the Holbrook Argus beginning May 12, 1900, and continuing until it ceased publication on February 4, 1913. According to Newspapers and Periodicals of Arizona 1859-1911 by Estelle Lutrell, the Argus started out as Democratic in orientation, switched to being a Republican paper in 1896, and returned to the Democratic fold in 1906, remaining there until the end of its run.
Albert Franklin Banta, the first editor of the Argus was a colorful pioneer of early Arizona. Banta was connected to, edited, and helped publish some half dozen or more papers all across the Territory, including one of Arizona’s earliest, the Arizona Miner at Fort Whipple in 1864. Banta served as a government scout and delivered mail in the north and also from Tucson to Fort Goodwin and back up north again to Fort Apache. While in St. Johns, where he started the Arizona Pioneer, Banta was attacked by the founder of the town, Sol Barth. According to William H. Lyon in Those Old Yellow Dog Days while “[Sol] Barth was strangling Banta [his] brother Nathan Barth pulled a gun and opened fire putting a bullet through Sol’s hand and wounding Banta in the neck.” Banta survived the gunshot, dying of old age in the Pioneers’ Home in Prescott in 1924. According to Newspapers and Periodicals of Arizona 1859-1911, Banta had a career as a politician in Arizona prior to 1890 under the name C. A. Franklin. Under that alias, Banta…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Holbrook, Arizona, 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