Explore December 4 history highlights: launch of The Observer, Arctic expedition Polaris, King Carloman's death, and the ...
In the late 19th century, the South Plains of Texas was a sparsely settled frontier with no newspapers. That changed in 1886, when the Crosby County News began in the small Quaker settlement of ...
On Dec. 4, 1850, editor Thomas J. Dryer cranked out the first issue on a hand press inside a crude log cabin at Front and ...
It was a time legends were being written, and the newspaper that became the San Antonio Express-News was there to get them down in black and white. In 1865, San Antonio was a focal point of what ...