The Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer

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The Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer
TypeWeekly newspaper
Owner(s)L. Frank Baum
Founder(s)L. Frank Baum
PublisherL. Frank Baum
Editor-in-chiefL. Frank Baum
Founded1890
LanguageEnglish-language
Ceased publication1891
HeadquartersAberdeen, South Dakota

The Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer was a weekly newspaper edited and published by L. Frank Baum between 1890 and 1891.[1] The first issue of the weekly appeared on January 25, 1890, and the paper was based in Aberdeen, South Dakota.[1][2] Baum bought a local paper, Dakota Pioneer, from John H. Drake and renamed it as The Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer.[3][4]

Baum wrote editorials in his column titled Our Landlady in which he published satirical and humor views of the region.[2] In the first issue Baum introduced a fictitious boarding house keeper with strong political views named Sairy Ann Bilkins.[2] His editorials on native Americans in The Pioneer have been still considered to be controversial, some argue that his views were racist remarks whereas the others claim that his views were sympathetic to these people's plight, especially their loss of land, religion, and culture.[5] His editorials also contained the discussions of the theosophical themes.[6]

Due to financial problems the paper ceased publication, and the final issue of Pioneer was published on March 21, 1891.[1][3]

The Pioneer presented Baum's attitudes about politics, suffrage, tolerance, and religion and also provided the themes which would later appear in his fiction, especially his fourteen Oz books.[7]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c "The Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer (Aberdeen, S.D.) 1890-1891". Library of Congress. Retrieved April 21, 2021.
  2. ^ a b c Nancy Tystad Koupal (Spring 1990). "From the Land of Oz: L. Frank Baum's Satirical View of South Dakota's First Year of Statehood" (PDF). Montana: The Magazine of Western History. 40 (2): 46–57.
  3. ^ a b Kirstin Butler (April 6, 2021). "The Wizard in the White City". American Experience. Retrieved April 21, 2021.
  4. ^ Nancy Tystad Koupal (Fall 1989). "The Wonderful Wizard of the West: L. Frank Baum in South Dakota, 1888-91" (PDF). Great Plains Quarterly. 9 (4).
  5. ^ Hunter Liguore (Spring 2017). "Sympathy or Racism? L. Frank Baum on Native Americans". Great Plains Quarterly. 37 (2): 77–82.
  6. ^ John Algeo (1986). "Oz and Kansas: A Theosophical Quest". Children's Literature Association Quarterly: 135–139.
  7. ^ (ed.). "Baum, L. Frank (1856-1919)". Encyclopedia of the Great Plains. Retrieved April 21, 2021.


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