Carrizozo Outlook (Carrizozo, 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.
304 issues from 1915 to 1921, published in Carrizozo, New Mexico, digitised for Chronicling America.
The high desert town (roughly 5,400 feet above sea level) of Carrizozo is located in south-central New Mexico along the Sacramento Mountains. The town’s name was derived from the Spanish word “carrizo” and refers to the abundant reed-like grass in the region. Located in an area unsuitable for dry farming, Carrizozo developed and flourished as a trading center for miners and ranchers in Lincoln County. The town was situated on the El Paso Northeastern rail line and, by the 1940s, on a major highway junction. The first newspapers in Carrizozo were founded after they fled less prosperous towns nearby. In 1906, the Outlook moved from White Oaks, a mining town which had failed to live up to its original promise, to Carrizozo, which became the seat of Lincoln County in 1909.
A Republican newspaper, the Outlook was published weekly from December 27, 1906, through December 1909. It briefly assumed the title Southwestern Outlook between May 21 and December 31, 1909; it was renamed the Carrizozo Outlook in January 1910 and continued weekly publication until August 31, 1945. The December 12, 1912, edition of the paper asserted that it was “published weekly in the interest of Carrizozo and Lincoln County.” On the editorial page, the Carrizozo Outlook claimed it had the “largest circulation in the county.” A one-year subscription cost $1.50 and a six-month subscription half that amount.. On September 7, 1945, the Carrizozo Outlook merged with the Lincoln County News to form the Lincoln…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Carrizozo, 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