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Collection 2131, MtBC, us
Bozeman Weekly Chronicle
Records
1884-1904
5 volumes
The Bozeman Weekly Chronicle Business Records include five
volumes of business ledgers from 1884 to 1904. They record orders for advertising in the
paper and cash sales of printing orders.
Collection materials are in English
Historical Note
On January 27, 1883, Samuel W. Langhorne established the
Bozeman
Weekly Chronicle in order to promote the Democratic Party. The main competition in
town was the Avant Courier, a supporter of the Republican
Party. Langhorne did not start out as a newspaper man. He was trained as a druggist, working
in Helena from 1865 to 1870 before moving to Bozeman. He opened a drug store in Bozeman
before establishing the paper. In addition to the paper, Langhorne was involved in civic
affairs and served as a probate judge, a legislator and Speaker of the House, and county
clerk and recorder. After a year of running the paper, he sold it to his editor, A. K.
Yerkes who was publisher with Charles S. Fell until October 1899. David Marks bought the
paper from Yerkes and Marks and created the Chronicle Publishing Company. His first editor
was J. W. Kelley. By February 1902 William M. Bole took over as editor of the paper. In 1886
the Bozeman Weekly Chronicle was enlarged to a nine-column
format and by 1911 it became a daily paper. Over the next few decades, ownership of the
paper changed hands several times, usually to prominent Bozeman businessmen.
The Bozeman Weekly Chronicle Business Records include five volumes of business ledgers from
1884 to 1904. They record orders for advertising in the paper and cash sales of printing
orders. One book records subscriptions to the paper from 1884-1904. Patrons mentioned in the
business records include J. V. Bogert, Walter Cooper, George R. Safely, M. M. Black, John S.
Mendenhall, A. K. Yerkes, T. A. Pease, and Nelson Story and Company.
This collection is open for research.
The Bozeman Weekly Chronicle Business Records were donated to Special Collections by the
Museum of the Rockies in December of 1984.
This collection was processed 2009 April 2
Bozeman
(Mont.)-Newspapers
Newspaper publishing-Montana-Bozeman
Business records-Montana-Bozeman
Bozeman weekly chronicle (Bozeman,
Mont.)
Media and
Communication
Montana
Bozeman
Volume 1
Ledger
1891-1894
Volume 2
Ledger
1894-1897
Volume 3
Ledger
1900-1903
Volume 4
Day book
1894-1898
(cash sales)
Volume 5
Subscription book
1884-1904