El Fronterizo (Tucson, Ariz.) 1878-191?
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
553 issues from 1882 to 1908, published in Tucson, Arizona, digitised for Chronicling America.
In 1877, Carlos Tully of Tully, Ochoa & Company founded two newspapers in Tucson, Arizona: the Daily Bulletin and the Spanish-language Las Dos repúblicas. The Bulletin’s masthead was soon changed to the Arizona Star, and Tully’s close ally, Louis Hughes, who would serve as governor of Arizona in 1893, joined him in running the newly re-titled publication. The Repúblicas, which shared a handpress with the Star, only remained in publication until 1879. However, it had become clear that there was a market for Spanish-language newspapers in Tucson.
Filling this demand was El Fronterizo, established in 1878 by Carlos Ygnacio Velasco. The Spanish-language weekly was associated with the Star’s rival, the Arizona Citizen. Under Velasco’s editorial reign, the Republican El Fronterizo promoted pride in Hispanic culture. Velasco, along with Pedro C. Pellon and Mariano G. Samaniego, would in 1894 go on to found La Alianza Hispano-Americana (The Hispanic American Alliance), a mutual aid society and political organization which soon spread throughout the Southwest.
Velasco took an anti-assimilationist stance for the Hispanic population in Arizona and to have actively campaigned for repatriation to Mexico. Along with Carlos Tully, Velasco also advocated the deportation of the Chinese, who had arrived in Tucson in such large numbers to build the railroad.
While other Arizona Spanish-language papers were short lived and often had indifferent success, El Fronterizo remained in circulation…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Tucson, Arizona, 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