Custer Weekly Chronicle (Custer City, S.D.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,761 issues from 1890 to 1922, published in Custer, South Dakota, digitised for Chronicling America.
On December 3, 1879, in Custer City (aka Custer), Dakota Territory, a paper known as the News began at the hands of A. W. Merrick and a partner named Burke. In the spring of 1880, Joseph Kubler and Avery D. Clark purchased the paper from Merrick and began publishing it each Saturday under the Custer Chronicle masthead. The first issue, dated September 11, 1880, was a six-column, four-page paper featuring articles about the benefits of living in Custer. The subscription cost for one year was $4.00, for six months was $2.50, and for three months was $1.25.
Joseph Kubler had come to America from Germany as a 17-year-old orphan in 1871. He began his newspaper apprenticeship with W. A. Laughlin and Merrick in Denver and traveled with them to Custer in 1876 to start the first newspaper there. The first issue of the Black Hills Weekly Pioneer was a half-page sheet published in May, but one month later, the gold discovery in Deadwood Gulch in the northern section of the Black Hills (aka the Hills) looked to be a more lucrative setting for the three newspapermen. Their abrupt move to Deadwood to continue publishing The Black Hills Weekly Pioneer left Custer without a paper.
Located in the southern Black Hills, Custer, the area’s pioneer city, was organized in 1875. It had spent several tumultuous years as a Wild West location for miners, outlaws, and other disreputable characters. When General George Armstrong Custer’s 1874 military expedition explored the area, one of his men,…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Custer, South Dakota, 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