History
The Rapid City Journal began on Jan. 5, 1878 as the Black Hills Journal. Publisher Jospeh P. Gossage produced the first edition of the Black Hills Journal, which was four pages and had 250 subscribers. Printed in a log cabin on Rapid Street, the first newspaper was laboriously cranked out on a Washington hand printing press.
The newspaper printed its first daily paper and changed its name to the Rapid City Daily Journal on Feb. 2, 1886. It continued to publish as both a daily and a weekly until 1929.
It has acted as a historical record for western South Dakota covering major events like the 1972 Black Hills flood, the annual Buffalo Roundup and auction in Custer State Park, Crazy Horse Memorial's annual volksmarch and the annual Sturgis motorcycle rally.
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