Lewiston Newspaper Golden Age distributed Its First Issue [otd 08/02]

On Saturday, August 2, 1862, the Golden Age newspaper released its inaugural issue in Lewiston, Washington Territory. The Age thus has the honor of being the first newspaper published in what would become, seven months later, Idaho Territory. The publisher was a man named A. S. Gould, about whom we know very little.
Front page, Golden Age.
Timothy Hughes: Rare and Early Newspaper blog.
A footnote in Bancroft’s History noted that, “Gould, a Republican, had hot times with the secession element w...