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Only known issues are held by us...
Item # 705691
July 10, 1882
SALIDA DAILY SENTINEL, Colorado, July 10, 1882
* First and only year of publication ?
An exceedingly rare title as Gregory (Union List of American Newspapers) notes that only one institution had any issues of this title & they were recently purchased by us. No other issues are recorded in any institution. Actually a very typical newspaper of the period with news items of the day--much of it local--with a great wealth of local advertising as well.
Four pages, minor tears at margins, generally nice condition.
AI notes: The Salida Daily Sentinel was a short-lived but representative frontier-era newspaper published in Salida, Chaffee County, Colorado, beginning in 1882, during a period when the town was rapidly expanding as a railroad hub and supply center for nearby mining districts. Like many small daily papers of the time, it likely focused on local mining activity, railroad developments, municipal politics, court proceedings, business advertisements, and regional news, serving a fast-growing population tied to silver and lead extraction in the Arkansas River valley. The paper operated alongside other early Salida titles—such as the Salida Daily Mountain Mail—in a competitive and often unstable newspaper environment where financial pressures, limited advertising revenue, and shifting readership frequently caused papers to merge, change names, or cease publication. Although the Daily Sentinel is documented in newspaper directories and library catalogs, surviving issues appear to be scarce, suggesting it may have existed only briefly before being absorbed by or replaced with a more enduring publication, reflecting the volatile nature of journalism in Colorado’s boom-and-bust mining towns of the late 19th century.
Category: The Old West
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