Historic newspapers · Colorado

Colorado historic newspapers: 46,718 free digitised pages

Name: Colorado historic newspapers (Chronicling America)
Creator: Library of Congress
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Everything below is what the Library of Congress holds online for Colorado in Chronicling America, counted on 2026-10-06. The pages are free to read and searchable by name; an obituary or a marriage notice here is often the only record of a date before civil registration.

Titles with the most digitised pages

Newspaper	Years	Pages online
The Daily Sentinel (Grand Junction, Colo.)		4,301
The Daily Tribune (Florence, Colo.)		1,845
The Meeker Herald (Meeker, Colo.)		1,826
The Delta Independent (Delta, Colo.)		1,802
The Lamar Register (Lamar, Colo.)	1889–1952	1,754
Rocky Ford Enterprise (Rocky Ford, Colo.)	1887–1950	1,667
Daily Camera (Boulder, Colo.)	1891–1928	1,526
La Junta Tribune (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.)	1881–1939	1,495
The Holly Chieftain (Holly, Colo.)	1897–1987	1,399
The State Herald (Holyoke, Logan County, Colo.)	1887–1921	1,367

Counties

Fremont 4,391 pages
Mesa 4,301 pages
Otero 4,081 pages
Denver 3,890 pages
Prowers 3,615 pages
Garfield 2,916 pages
Gunnison 2,826 pages
Delta 2,247 pages
Rio Blanco 1,826 pages
La Plata 1,736 pages

Cities

Grand Junction 4,301 pages
Denver 3,890 pages
Florence 3,072 pages
Delta 1,930 pages
Lamar 1,897 pages
Meeker 1,826 pages
Durango 1,736 pages
Rocky Ford 1,667 pages
Boulder 1,526 pages
Holyoke 1,503 pages

By decade

1730 to 1739 1 pages
1740 to 1749 1 pages
1750 to 1759 1 pages
1760 to 1769 1 pages
1770 to 1779 1 pages
1780 to 1789 1 pages
1790 to 1799 1 pages
1800 to 1809 3 pages
1810 to 1819 3 pages
1820 to 1829 3 pages
1830 to 1839 3 pages
1840 to 1849 3 pages
1850 to 1859 3 pages
1860 to 1869 49 pages
1870 to 1879 7 pages
1880 to 1889 1,085 pages
1890 to 1899 5,316 pages
1900 to 1909 18,666 pages
1910 to 1919 15,984 pages
1920 to 1929 4,998 pages
1930 to 1939 99 pages
1940 to 1949 728 pages
1950 to 1959 32 pages
1960 to 1969 30 pages

Languages

English 46,718 pages
Japanese 661 pages
Italian 261 pages
Spanish 158 pages

Ethnic press: African American, Japanese, Jewish

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