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Newspaper The People's Voice (Buffalo, Johnson County, Wyo.) 1892-1897

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About The People's Voice (Buffalo, Johnson County, Wyo.) 1892-1897

In 1883, Hugh R. Morgan moved from Cheyenne, Wyoming to the growing town of Buffalo to begin operating a newspaper. Morgan arrived and established himself there, however T.V. McCandlish took over the operation, and the first issue of the Buffalo Echo appeared on August 2. Due to health concerns, McCandlish went on to sell the paper to J.B. Morrow in November of the same year. In 1886, Morrow sold it to Thomas J. Bouton. Before Bouton sold the Echo in 1892, he purchased the printing plant used to create the Big Horn Sentinel when it ended its run in 1889.

After Bouton ceased publishing the Echo in 1892, the plant used to print the paper was sold to O.H. “Jack” Flagg, a major participant in the Johnson County War after ending up on the Wyoming Stock Growers Association’s death list. The paper was renamed as the People’s Voice, and continued under that name until December 11, 1897, when it was changed to the Buffalo Voice with no change in content. In November 1902, the Voice Publishing Company was created by a group of Democrats in Johnson County who purchased the Buffalo Voice from its editor and publisher Gustave E. A. Moeller, and claimed to have the “largest paid circulation of any paper in Northern Wyoming.” The Voice Publishing Company hired attorney and Sheridan newspaperman Hayden M. White as editor and business manager for the Voice. White sold his stock in the Voice Publishing Company and left his position at the paper in December 1919, due to failing health. Professor John T. Hawks, at the time superintendent of Johnson County High School, was hired to replace White and served as editor of the Voice until 1921, when Mrs. E.G. Miller was hired to fill the position.

On May 6, 1925, the equipment used to print the Voice and its predecessors was sold to Frank E. Lucas, the publisher of the Buffalo Bulletin, and the final issue of the Buffalo Voice appeared on May 15, 1925. This sale would have left coverage and dissemination of the news of Johnson County to just one republican newspaper. Mr. and Mrs. E.G. Miller were inspired to publish their own democratic paper and began the Buffalo News as “a continuation of The Buffalo Voice” on September 17, 1925. The Buffalo News ceased publishing in late 1926, marking an end to the legacy of the Buffalo Echo in Johnson County. Another successor to the Buffalo Voice, the Sheridan Journal started in Sheridan County on September 3, 1925. The paper’s first edition included a history of the Buffalo Voice. On November 9, 1930, Sheridan County’s newspapers made the decision to merge together and begin publishing under the name the Sheridan Press, the title that is still published in Sheridan, Wyoming.

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About this Newspaper

Title

  • The People's Voice (Buffalo, Johnson County, Wyo.) 1892-1897

Dates of Publication

  • 1892-1897

Created / Published

  • Buffalo, Johnson County, Wyo. : O.H. Flagg

Headings

  • -  Buffalo (Wyo.)--Newspapers
  • -  Johnson County (Wyo.)--Newspapers
  • -  United States--Wyoming--Johnson--Buffalo

Notes

  • -  Weekly
  • -  Began in 1892.
  • -  -v. 6, no. 31 (Dec. 4, 1897).
  • -  Description based on: Vol. 1, no. 3 (May 28, 1892).
  • -  Buffalo voice (DLC)sn 92067096

Medium

  • v.

Library of Congress Control Number

  • sn93070038

OCLC Number

  • 27688686

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The People's Voice Buffalo, Johnson County, Wyo. -1897. (Buffalo, WY), Jan. 1 1892. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/sn93070038/.

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(1892, January 1) The People's Voice Buffalo, Johnson County, Wyo. -1897. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/sn93070038/.

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The People's Voice Buffalo, Johnson County, Wyo. -1897. (Buffalo, WY) 1 Jan. 1892. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, aj.sunback.homes/item/sn93070038/.