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Newspaper Valdez Daily Prospector (Valdez, Alaska) 1905-1918

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About Valdez Daily Prospector (Valdez, Alaska) 1905-1918

First published February 13, 1902, in Valdez, and edited by H.H. Hildreth, (former editor of Sitka’s The Alaskan, along with businessmen Will H. Craray and Joseph Bourke, The Alaska Prospector absorbed The Valdez News in June 1907, and continued publishing until 1908. Judge James Wickersham, in A Bibliography of Alaskan Literature, incorrectly lists the Alaska Prospector as “The Weekly Alaska Prospector.”

True to its title, the Alaska Prospector provided news of gold strikes in Tanana Valley and started its run with a mere 500 copies. Its first publisher block listed Hildreth as “Quill Pusher,” Craray as “Ink Slinger,” and Bourke as “Walking Delegate.” The popularity of the Alaska Prospector owed a great deal to its advertising within its pages. According to Wickersham, on August 20, 1908, the Alaska Prospector changed its publishing frequency and name to the Valdez Weekly Prospector, which it remained until August 1, 1912, at which point the paper briefly became The Valdez Miner and then The Valdez Miner and Weekly Prospector from August 5-25, 1912. A concurrent paper, the Valdez Daily Prospector, ran until May 18, 1918, although sources are inconclusive regarding a beginning date: Alaska Newspapers on Microfilm 1866-1998 cites 1905, yet the earliest existing reel dates to June 15, 1908. Additionally, there was a Daily Prospector Bulletin that ran from around 1905 to 1911, that Alaska Newspapers on Microfilm 1866-1998 lists as a concurrent edition of the Valdez Daily Prospector.

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About this Newspaper

Title

  • Valdez Daily Prospector (Valdez, Alaska) 1905-1918

Dates of Publication

  • 1905-1918

Created / Published

  • Valdez, Alaska : Prospector Pub. Co., -1918.

Headings

  • -  Valdez (Alaska)--Newspapers
  • -  Alaska--Valdez
  • -  United States--Alaska--Valdez

Genre

  • Newspapers

Notes

  • -  Daily
  • -  Began in 1905?
  • -  -v. 14, no. 98 (May 7, 1918).
  • -  Vol. numbering irregular.
  • -  Archived issues are available in digital format from the Library of Congress Chronicling America online collection.
  • -  Other eds. available: Daily prospector bulletin, <1905-1911>, and: Alaska prospector, <1905>-1908, and: Valdez weekly prospector, 1908-1912.
  • -  Description based on: Vol. 4, no. 186 (June 15, 1908).

Medium

  • v.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Newspaper

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • sn98060264

OCLC Number

  • 39215541

ISSN Number

  • 2578-1065

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Chicago citation style:

Valdez Daily Prospector Valdez, Alaska -1918. (Valdez, AK), Jan. 1 1905. https://www.loc.gov/item/sn98060264/.

APA citation style:

(1905, January 1) Valdez Daily Prospector Valdez, Alaska -1918. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/sn98060264/.

MLA citation style:

Valdez Daily Prospector Valdez, Alaska -1918. (Valdez, AK) 1 Jan. 1905. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/sn98060264/.