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246 Nebraska City Town Site Company. Its editor was J. S. Morton, who had formerly been connected with The Detroit Free Press.

The Omaha Nebraskan first appeared on January 17, 1855, and was the first newspaper printed at Omaha. It was established by B. B. Chapman. The last issue was on June 15, 1865. The first regular daily was The Telegraph, which appeared on December 5, 1860, published simultaneously at Omaha and Council Bluffs. Its We was short, however; it did not last more than a year. On June 19, 1871, Edward Rosewater started The Bee at Omaha, Nebraska. The Herald had been begun in Omaha, October 2, 1865: it was purchased in 1888 by Gilbert M. Hitchcock.

The first newspaper published within the present boundaries of South Dakota was The Dakota Democrat, founded at Sioux Falls City, now Sioux Falls, September 20, 1858. Its owner and publisher was Samuel J. Albright. He published the paper, which was a four-page sheet with five columns to the page, rather irregularly until July 2, 1859. After that date he rarely skipped an issue until the autumn of 1860, when he turned the paper over to Mr. Stewart, who changed its name to The Northwestern Democrat. The reason for this change was that Albright took with him the original heading of the paper—The Democrat and the new owner was forced to use one which had been previously employed in printing a paper at Sergeant Bluffs, Iowa. When the Indian war broke out in 1862, the settlement of Sioux Falls was abandoned. In sacking the town the Indians destroyed the printing-plant, but carried away most of the type. After peace was declared the type came back again to the whites in the shape of ornaments used to decorate the pipes which the Indians fashioned out of the red pipe stone and sold to the settlers. The Dakota Democrat was "the official organ" of the Legislature which first convened at Sioux Falls, 1858-59.

The second paper, The Weekly Dakotaian, the oldest continuous newspaper in South Dakota, was established in Yankton, June 6, 1861, by Frank M. Ziebach. In March, 1862, it was sold