The Anaconda Standard
Type5 days per week
Format8 page, 6 column
Owner(s)Marcus Daly
Founded1889
Ceased publication1970
HeadquartersAnaconda, Montana, United States]
ISSN2163-4483
OCLC number10309820

The Anaconda Standard was a newspaper published in Anaconda, Montana. The first issue was published on September 4, 1889 and the final issue was published on June 20, 1970.[1]

The Anaconda newspaper was funded by Marcus Daly and owned by his company the Anaconda Copper Mining Company.[1] It is likely the newspaper was created in reaction to a rivalry between Daly and Thomas H. Carter.[2]

On September 12, 1928 the Standard merged with Butte Miner, based in nearby Butte, Montana, to form the The Montana Standard.[3]

Daly used the paper to further his political and financial reach. By 1920, the Anaconda Company owned several additional Montana newspapers including the Butte Post, Butte Miner, Daily Missoulian, Helena Independent, and Billings Gazette.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b "About The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970". Library of Congress. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
  2. ^ Morris, Patrick F. (1997). Anaconda, Montana: Copper Smelting Boom Town on the Western Frontier. Swann Pub. p. 78. ISBN 978-0-9657209-2-2. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  3. ^ "The Anaconda standard". World Cat. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
  4. ^ 1 Work, Clemens P. Darkest before Dawn: Sedition and Free speech in the American West. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005), 85.
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