About the Deseret News (Weekly Edition), 1850–1898

The weekly edition of the Deseret News was published from June 15, 1850–December 19, 1898. It was the first newspaper published in the Utah Territory, only three years after the Mormon pioneers settled in the Great Salt Lake Valley.

To search issues from 1899–1910 of the Deseret Evening News (the paper’s daily evening edition), visit DigitalNewspapers.org.