Title info
- Ayer Annual1 Not listed
- Publish day: Thursdays
- Content: Agriculture
- Established: 1894
- Pages: 16-20
- Size: 11 x 13 in
- Editor:
- Publisher:
- Frequency: weekly, then semi-monthly
- Coverage
- Region: South Cascades, Statewide
- County: Yakima
- Unique ids
- LCCN: 2007252175; 2007252185; sn98047754; sn98047755
- OCLC: 226861055
Digitization plan
2008-2009 grant
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History
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The Ranch [LCCN: 2007252175]
The first issue of the Ranch came off the press of the Yakima Herald [LCCN: sn88085523] on January, 20th, 1894. During the same year C. P. Wilcox, W. H. Wilcox, George N. Tuesley,
and Ranch editor Edgar Libby formed the Yakima Publishing Company
and bought the Yakima Republic [LCCN: sn88085525] . The group also took responsibility for the Ranch. Financial problems triggered frequent transactions in the Yakima publishing community
and left the Republic nearly defunct before James
and Sperry became owners in early 1896. The Ranch may have been a victim of the troubled economic climate
and frequent changes of ownership; no issues are known to have been printed after August 18, 1894.
Edgar Howard Libby was the editor
and creative force behind the Ranch. Educated at the University of Massachusettes Amherst, Libby spent his early professional life editing
and publishing journals such as Scientific Farmer (Amherst
and Boston) [LCCN: ca08002908], American Agriculturalist (New York)[LCCN:sf87090292], L
and and Home (New York), Farmers’ Review (Chicago), the American Garden
and Our Country Home (Greenfield, Mass) [LCCN: ca09000980],
and contributed to the Irrigation Age (Chicago) [LCCN:ca17003583]. News of planned irrigation projects in North Yakima, Washington may have encouraged him to move there. The financial panic of 1893 contributed to instability in the Yakima publishing industry
and conditions were unfavorable for his new venture. By early 1896 Libby had left North Yakima
and formed the Lewiston(Idaho)Water
and Power Company, an organization that completed ambitious irrigation
and bridge construction projects in the Lewiston-Clarkston area with the financial backing of east coast investors.
The Ranch is among the earliest agricultural journals published in the state of Washington. It encouraged farmers to employ scientific knowledge to their farming practice. It may also have inspired Miller Freeman to found a similar journal, the Ranche
and Range [LCCN: 2007252185], in 1897.
Essay Notes
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ranch-research notes page
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- Heuterman. A history of newspapering in Yakima, Washington. 1961 masters thesis.
- Freeman, Miller. The memoirs of Miller Freeman 1875-1955. 1956 The founder of the Ranche and Range/The Ranch.
- N.W. Ayer & Son's American newspaper annual -- fill in year -- fill in page
- NDNP Candidate Title List (Appendix A1.2)
- Chronicling America record (LOC) - The ranch. (North Yakima, Wash.) 1894-189?
- Chronicling America record (LOC) - Ranche and range. : (North Yakima, Wash.) 1897-1902 )
- Chronicling America record (LOC) - The ranch. (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914
- Chronicling America record (LOC) - The Washington Farmer (1914-1971)
- WorldCat record - Ranch
- UW record - Ranch
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- Filmed by: UW
- Positives held by: UW
- Negatives held by: UW
- Holdings list:
Notes
newspaper-like, covers the farming industry across the state with backfiles for 1894,
and 1897-1914 on 8 reels for a total of 5,050 pages (if I'm reading the paperwork on it correctly). Published in Seattle on a biweekly-then-weekly basis, on newsprint, excellent clarity, tabloid size -
gpearson, 2008/09/30 16:01Evaluation
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