Duchesne County Newspapers

1909 - 1939

This collection contains the following newspapers published in Duchesne County:

Newspaper NameCityPublishing Dates
The Uintah ChieftainMytonMay 1909-April 1910
The Duchesne RecordTheodore/Myton/DuchesneMay 1910-September 1921
The Duchesne CourierDuchesneMay 1922-July 1931
The Uintah Basin RecordDuchesneAugust 1931-November 1939
Myton Free PressMytonApril 1915-May 1925

The Utah Digital Newspapers Program would like to extend its most sincere thanks to Kathleen Cooper (Myton Mayor), the Myton City Corporation, the Duchesne County Library and Craig Ashby (publisher of the Uintah basin Standard), for their generous donations and the loan of their original newspapers for the creation of this collection.


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  • On May 14, 1908, the Uintah Chieftain was launched in Myton with this fanfare: “Today the Uintah Chieftain makes its bow to the settlers of the former Uintah Indian Reservation”.
  • The Duchesne Record was started on April 8, 1909, in Theodore, Wasatch County. Theodore later became Duchesne, when Duchesne County was organized.
  • On May 6, 1910, under the headline “Papers Consolidate” on page 8, ran this article in the Record:
    “Beginning next week the three papers of the Reservation, the Uinta Standard, the Uintah Chieftain, and the Duchesne Record, will consolidate under the name of the Uinta Record, which will be published at Myton. The present editor of the Duchesne Record will serve in the same capacity under the consolidation. The amalgamation is brought about for the reason that the owners of the respective publications consider that it is more desirable to have one good paper to represent the Reservation than to have the field so much divided that neither can afford, from a business standpoint, to get out the kind of paper the Uinta basin is entitled to. Beginning at once the Record will publish a four page home print publication. [As an after consideration since the above was put in type, and in honor of the mighty stream, which, together with its many tributaries, furnishes the water for the irrigation of this section, it has been decided to retain the name “The Duchesne Record.”]
  • Glen C. Gray, the business manager of the Record was killed by a deer hunter's bullet on June 7, 1921. It was said the same bullet may have carried away the Record as it struggled to continue and eventually went under that September.
  • When the Duchesne Record moved from Myton to Duchesne, the Uintah Basin Publishing Company purchased the entire Record newspaper plant in Myton to continue publishing the Myton Free Press. The Free Press was in business until 1931 when the entire plant was sold and moved to Lehi.