Draft:Chronicle (Leadville, Colorado)

The Leadville Chronicle may refer to several newspapers, perhaps associated.

The Carbonate Chronicle / weekly, of Leadville, Lake County, CO, started December 20, 1879? Or at any rate the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection has online, scanned, 1023 issues, from December 20, 1879, to February 17, 1936. NO, THE December 20 ISSUE IS VOLUME 1, NUMBER 45, SO IT STARTED EARLIER. It is a Saturday issue of Carbonate Weekly Chronicle. The names Carlyle V.(?) Davis and John Arkins appear on 2nd page, probably as editors and/or owners.

• The LOC "About" for the Carbonate Chronicle gives: "Created / Published: Leadville, Lake County, Colo. : Carlyle C. Davis, John Arkins".
• March 2022 (Leadville) Herald Democrat: "Righting a wrong, at long last", by Marcia Martinek Editor Emerita March 16, 2022: "Carlyle Channing Davis, founder of the Herald Democrat, arrived in Leadville in 1879, had a significant career here as a journalist, and then, in 1895, suffered a breakdown. He was forced to find a more hospitable climate, and ended his years in California, ..."

The Leadville Daily/Evening Chronicle, Volume 1, Number 1, January 29, 1879: The Leadville Daily/Evening Chronicle is available online in 3542 issues from January 29, 1879, to September 8, 1898. Published at Leadville, Lake County, CO. Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection. The first issue they have, of January 29, 1879, is Volume 1, Number 1.

• the Herald Democrat Marcia Martinek Editor Emerita March 16, 2022, piece: "Mrs. Flora Bergstresser Burnell received a lengthy writeup in the Leadville newspaper when she wed James M. Burnell, one of the founders of the Leadville Chronicle, in 1888. She was called 'one of the ornaments of Leadville society'".

The Library of Congress' project "Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers", has 3,803 papers digitized, including none of these! It has 20,007,984 pages available.

Its "U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present" includes:

• The daily chronicle. [volume] (Leadville, Colo.) 1879-1886
• Leadville evening chronicle. (Leadville, Colo.) 1886-1???
• Carbonate weekly chronicle. (Leadville, Colo.) 1879-18?? <- i have its "about" printed, but can find on site now.

chapter on Newspapers pages 119-121, in "Silver Boom! The Rise and Decline of Leadville, Colorado as the United States Silver Capital, 1860-1896", 2008 by Bonnie K. Goodman, available at for-profit Academia.edu.

THE REAL PIONEERS OF COLORADO by Maria Davies McGrath Volume I (and II and III) The Denver Museum 1934 , 583 pages, includes: "Harry Ruffner, son of John C. and Mary Jane Ruffner was born in Denver March 14, 1863. H pursued his early education in the Denver school at the corner of 14th and Arapahoe Streets in the years 1868-70. In the following year he became a student within the high school at Del Norte, Colorado, where he continued his studies until 1875. Taking up newspaper work, he became the first “devil” on the San Juan Prospector, published at Del Norte, and was the first newsboy on the streets of Leadville on April 1, 1878. He founded the Sons of Colorado Society and is the father of Colorado Day."

Leadville Herald and variations

The Leadville Herald continues today, at least in e-editions. www.leadvilleherald.com/.