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Early Colorado Newspapers

By Virginia Simmons In Colorado’s younger days, publishing a newspaper often simply involved hauling a printing press, a case of lead type, and some newsprint in a wagon across the prairie to a new town or mining camp, printing the current local news, and selling it to any eager soul who could read and had a few coins or some gold dust to spare, until the one-man publisher-editor, reporter-circulation manager, ad salesman-town promoter moved his enterprise to another dot on the horizon. In the northern San Luis Valley, one man, Dean Coombs still prints his Saguache Crescent on a linotype, ...

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