Early Star a historical snapshot

(Publisher’s note: the following article is a teaser for the Star’s annual Historical Edition, which is found in this week’s newspaper.)

The earliest Green River Star available to anyone is dated Nov. 17, 1905.

The archives at the Star’s building only go back to 1940, due to a fire destroying the newspaper’s earliest archive books, but the newspaper can be found online on the Wyoming State Library’s newspaper project, newspapers.wyo.gov.

Listed as Vol. XVI - No.14, the newspaper is faded in some parts, while ink smudges occasionally obscure text in others. Only one page exists -- the cover she...