Newspapers

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Offsite

Atchison County Kansas Newspapers On-line

• Atchison Daily Globe, Atchison, Kansas

Following is a listing of Atchison County territorial Kansas newspapers, published between 15 Sept 1854 and 29 Jan 1861, available in the collections of the Library/Archives Division of the Kansas State Historical Society and the Kansas City Kansas Community College. This bibliography is based on information compiled by the librarians of the Kansas State Historical Society and on Herbert Flint's thesis, "Journalism in territorial Kansas" [submitted to the University of Kansas, 1916], available in the KSHS library [call number KL / 070.9 / F64].

• Atchison Union
• Weekly Bulletin
• Freedom's Champion
• Squatter Sovereign

Also check other territorial Kansas newspapers at KCKCC for your Atchison County ancestors.

Kansas Territorial Newspapers
These territorial Kansas newspapers, published between September 15, 1854, and January 29, 1861, which are not available for view at the above link (Atchison County Newspapers online) are available in the collections of the Library/Archives Division of the Kansas State Historical Society. All papers listed are available at no charge through interlibrary loan.

Atchison (Atchison County)
Atchison Union
Democratic
June 4, 1859 - Sept. 7, 1861.......................A 1394


Freedom's Champion
A free-state paper connected to the New England Emigrant Aid Company, it continued on the press of the Squatter Sovereign. F.G. Adams and John A. Martin were among those associated with it.
Feb. 20, 1858 - Dec. 20, 1860.......................A 994
Jan. 5, 1861 - Dec. 31, 1863 ........................A 995
Feb. 20, 1858 - June 1, 1861.......................A 998


Kansas Zeitung
A bilingual (German/English) free-state paper.
July 22, 1857 - Nov. 6, 1858......................L 1664


Squatter Sovereign
Begun as a company paper by the Atchison Town Company, this became under editor John Stringfellow the best-known and most notorious of the Kansas pro-slavery papers. In March 1857, the paper was sold to Samuel C. Pomeroy, a Massachusetts free-stater who represented the New England Emigrant Aid Company, who turned it into a free-state periodical. Subsequently it was sold to John A. Martin, who renamed it Freedom's Champion.
Feb. 3, 1855 - Dec. 5, 1857.........................A 1044