Black Hills Pioneer

Black Hills Pioneer
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatTabloid
Owner(s)Seaton Publishing Company, Inc.
Founder(s)A. W. Merrick
W. A. Laughlin
PublisherLetitia Lister
EditorMark Watson
FoundedJune 8, 1876 (1876-06-08)
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters315 Seaton Circle
Spearfish, South Dakota 57783
USA
Circulation5,000
Sister newspapers
Nation's Center News
The Weekly Prospector
ISSN1061-6179
OCLC number21928320
Websitebhpioneer.com

The Black Hills Pioneer is a daily newspaper published in Spearfish, South Dakota. It is a newspaper of record for the city of Sturgis,[1] and Meade County.[2]

History

On June 8, 1876, A. W. Merrick and W. A. Laughlin first published the Black Hills Weekly Pioneer in Deadwood, South Dakota.[3] After a month Laughlin sold out to C.V. Gardner.[4] In April 1877, Porter Warner and W.P. Newhard started the Black Hills Daily Times.[5] Newhard exited the firm after a month.[6]

In December 1884, Merrick left the Pioneer to Dolph Edwards and H.W. Pinneo,[7] who published it together until April 1885, when Willis H. Bonham succeeded Pinneo.[8] That May, Edwards retired and was succeeded by Charles Maskrey and James C. Moody.[9]

In 1897, the Pioneer and Times merged to form the Deadwood Pioneer Times, leaving Warner as editor and Bonham as business manager.[10] Bonham published the paper until his death in 1927.[11] His nephews Lee V. and Earl Morford continued to operated the business. In February 1944, O.A. Kelley bought the Pioneer Times from Lee V. Morford,[12] and later that year purchased the Black Hills Weekly of Deadwood from Mrs. Elizabeth Howe Donaldson.[13][14]

Fred A. Seaton, founder of Seaton Publishing, acquired the Lead Daily Call in October 1945.[15] Later that year brothers Carl H. and Roy A. "Spud" Sundstrom acquired the Pioneer Times and Weekly,[16] and in 1946 sold them to Seaton,[17] who died in 1974.[18] In 1983, Seaton Publishing, Co. launched the Spearfish Star as a competitor to the Spearfish Queen City Mail,[19] which it acquired in 1985.[20] At that time the Star was merged with the Weekly to form the Black Hills Weekly & Spearfish Star.[21] The Weekly was consolidated at some point. In 1993, the Call, the Mail and Pioneer Times were merged under the name Black Hills Pioneer.[22]

Pop culture

Publisher A.W. Merrick and the Black Hills Weekly Pioneer are portrayed in the HBO television series Deadwood.[23]

References

  1. ↑ Holland, Deb (May 8, 2019). "Black Hills Pioneer named legal newspaper for Sturgis". The Black Hills Pioneer. Spearfish, South Dakota. p. 1.
  2. ↑ Holland, Deb (January 14, 2021). "Black Hills Pioneer named legal newspaper of Meade County". The Black Hills Pioneer. Spearfish, South Dakota. pp. A2.
  3. ↑ "Our Prospects". The Black Hills Weekly Pioneer. Deadwood, South Dakota. June 8, 1876. p. 2.
  4. ↑ "Our Bow". The Black Hills Weekly Pioneer. Deadwood, South Dakota. July 1, 1876. p. 2.
  5. ↑ "Salutatory". Black Hills Weekly Times. Deadwood, South Dakota. April 15, 1877. p. 1.
  6. ↑ "Dissolution Notice". The Black Hills Daily Times. Deadwood, South Dakota. May 7, 1877. p. 1.
  7. ↑ Merrick, A.W. (December 14, 1884). "To Whom it May Concern". The Daily Deadwood Pioneer-Times. p. 2.
  8. ↑ "Dissolution". The Daily Deadwood Pioneer-Times. April 15, 1885. p. 4.
  9. ↑ "Change Number Thirteen". Deadwood Pioneer-Times. June 7, 1885. p. 5.
  10. ↑ "The Pioneer-Times". Deadwood Pioneer-Times. May 13, 1897. p. 2.
  11. ↑ "W.H. Bonham, Pioneer Of Black Hills, Died Yesterday Morning". The Weekly Pioneer-Times. Deadwood, South Dakota. December 1, 1927. p. 1.
  12. ↑ "Deadwood Man Buys Pioneer Times". Argus-Leader. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Associated Press. February 3, 1944. p. 12.
  13. ↑ "Deadwood Weekly Is Purchased By Daily". Rapid City Journal. May 20, 1944. p. 4.
  14. ↑ "Black Hills Weekly Changes Hands". The Ekalaka Eagle. May 26, 1944. pp. A1.
  15. ↑ "Daily Call Under New Ownership". Lead Daily Call. October 1, 1945. p. 1.
  16. ↑ "Sundstrom Brothers Purchase Deadwood-Times Paper". News Letter Journal. Newcastle, Wyoming. December 27, 1945. p. 1.
  17. ↑ "Lead Call and Pioneer-Times To Be Consolidated". Deadwood Pioneer-Times. July 27, 1946. p. 1.
  18. ↑ "Midwest publisher dies". The Black Hills Weekly. Associated Press. January 23, 1974. p. 1.
  19. ↑ "A family addition". Lead Daily Call. July 20, 1983. p. 1.
  20. ↑ "Queen City Mail merges with Spearfish Star". Spearfish Daily Queen City Mail. October 2, 1985. p. 1.
  21. ↑ Harlan, Bill (November 17, 1985). "Spearfish papers will end rivalry with merger". Rapid City Journal. p. 29.
  22. ↑ Dobbs, Pat (August 10, 1993). "3 Northern Hills papers become one". Rapid City Journal. p. 10.
  23. ↑ "Impossibly Rare 1877 Deadwood City Newspaper". The Mitchell Archives. Retrieved April 20, 2014.
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