El Independiente (Las Vegas, Nuevo México) 1894-19??
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
761 issues from 1894 to 1913, published in Las Vegas, New Mexico, digitised for Chronicling America.
El Independiente (“The Independent”) was published weekly in Spanish from March 24, 1894, until about August 17, 1928, in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Established in 1835 along the Santa Fe Trail, Las Vegas grew quickly due to its position along the route. The town continued to grow after the arrival of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad in 1879, and became New Mexico’s largest and most commercially active city by 1900. However, by the 1920s Las Vegas began to decline, largely because much of the railroad activity had moved south to Albuquerque.
Enrique H. Salazar served as the editor of El Independiente from its inception until late 1905. Salazar, a native of Santa Fe, had previously founded La Voz del Pueblo (“The Voice of the People”) with Nestor Montoya until 1890 when they sold the paper, which then moved to Las Vegas. In October of 1899, El Independiente became the official paper of San Miguel County. Salazar relinquished his editorial duties in December of 1905 to Secundino Romero, but continued as the paper’s treasurer and administrator. This relationship lasted until 1910 when Salazar moved to Fort Sumner. The paper continued in publication until August of 1928, when it moved to Albuquerque under the same name. The New Mexico Independent bought the paper in 1939, after which it was known as El Independiente and the New Mexico Independent.
El Independiente was originally published on Saturdays, but changed to Thursdays in August of 1897. Until it became the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Las Vegas, New Mexico, United States
- Language
- Spanish
- 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