Newspaper List

There have been 100 newspapers published in what is today Teller County over the past 100 years.

The first was the Cripple Creek Crusher. The first edition was printed with a layer of real gold over the regular ink.

The Crusher is published today as the Gold Rush. Trace Lineage of the Gold Rush by Rob Carrigan, published in the March 13, 2002 issue of the Gold Rush.

Here you will find a list of the newspapers that were published in Teller County, the microfilm records that survive and what organizations have copies on microfilm. The list is on a separate page. The explanation of how to read the data is provided here (below). A few newspapers published outside Teller County but will contain Teller County information are also included at the bottom of this page.

Explanation of data

On the following List of Newspapers page is a list of all newspapers that were published in Teller County. The report is grouped by the town which was home to the newspaper. Each newspaper listing includes the following information:

• Ref No. - Just a unique identifying number for each newspaper
• Name - The name of the publication
• Frequency - How often the newspaper was published (daily, weekly, monthly, biweekly, etc.)
• Publish Dates - The newspapers first - thru - last publication dates, as best they are known
• Comments - Optional notes. Often a paper was bought out by another publisher and its name was changed.
• Copies - (Optional) If copies are known to exist there will be a row that includes a coded name for an institution followed by two dates. The institution has copies (probably microfilm) that includes the dates given. The Codes are:

• PPL = Penrose Public Library (Pikes Peak Library District), Colorado Springs
• CoCC = Colorado College, Colorado Springs
• CoHi = State Historical Society of Colorado, Denver
• CoD = Denver Public Library, Denver
• CoU = University of Colorado, Boulder
• WHi = State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison
• KHi = Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka
• FFML = Franklin Ferguson Memorial Library, Cripple Creek

Example of how to understand the data - Using the non-Teller data below; the first entry says -

The newspaper "Out West" (number 1119 from the source book) was published weekly (w) starting on March 23, 1872 through December 26, 1872. The newspaper was continued (sold to another publisher who changed the paper's name) as the Colorado Springs Gazette. The Colorado Springs Public Library (institution PPL) has copies on microfilm of the complete period for which the paper was published.

The listings of the Teller County newspapers uses the similar presentation structure.

Much of this data was compiled from the Book "Guide to Colorado Newspapers, 1859-1963" by Donald E. Oehlerts. The Pikes Peak Library District in Colorado Springs has a copy of this book at the main Penrose branch. I have augmented the information obtained from this book with additional material.

Remember that prior to 1899, Teller County was a part of El Paso and Fremont Counties. You should include those counties in you research endeavors. Specifically, the Penrose Public Library (PPL) in Colorado Springs which has a good selection of other newspapers on microfilm. Some of non-Teller county newspapers that might be appropriate for doing research on Teller county are listed on this page (see below).

Non-Teller County Newspapers

El Paso County (Colorado Springs) Newspapers

Denver (includes entire State)Newspapers