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Willow Creek Journal (NE, 1873) « The Handwritten Newspapers Project

Publication History:

Place of Publication:  Willow Creek Farm, Waverly, Nebraska

Volume and Issue Data:  Vol. 1, No. 1, n.d.; author apparently intended to publish more:  No. 1 ends a serialized story with “to be continued”

Size and Format:  Ledger paper, 7.5 x 12 inches; pen and ink; 2 cols., 2 pp.

Editor/Publisher:  Charles A. Pierce, “Editor and Proprietor”

Title Changes and Continuations:  Immediate continuation of the March 1873 (Vol. 1, No. 4) issue of The Experiment , “Progress and Perseverance.”  Both newspapers are self-described as “A family paper, devoted to Literature, Agriculture, News, Family affairs, and General Improvement.”

One of the student editors, Charles A. Pierce, was the son of Charles W. Pierce, a civil war veteran, who was transferred to Demopolis, Alabama in 1866 as a major with the Freedman’s Bureau and District commander of western Alabama.  The senior Pierce served one term in the 41st Congress from Alabama’s fourth district in 1867.  I was during this time that his son, Charles A., began his first handwritten newspaper, The Experiment

Countless kind people--historians, librarians, archivists, colleagues, friends and family members--assisted me with this project. This bibliography and collection would not have been possible without them and is the better because of their assistance and advice.

There are too many to thank by name, but I owe a special debt of gratitude to the archivists and librarians at the State Historical Society of Iowa in Iowa City, IA, for introducing me to handwritten newspapers (notably the Quarterly Visitor ) and helping me with my initial research into this fascinating cultural phenomenon; to Dr. Carolyn S. Dyer and Dr. John Erickson, professors emeritus, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Iowa, for their guidance and encouragement in my initial studies of handwritten papers as a graduate student under their direction; to the literally hundreds of archivists across North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, a who gave of their time and expertise to help locate and identify manuscript newspapers in their collections; to Hannah Grieser for carefully logging most of the raw material I had collected into its present annotated bibliographic form; to Dr.