Boundary County IDGenWeb Project

          Newspapers contain valuable information about our ancestors and families. They can help in finding lots of information and facts about your ancestors.

          These types of sources can supplement public records and offer you information that is not documented someplace else.

          Also, one can learn much about their ancestor’s daily activities by showing them in the context of their time.

Recent News:

The Idaho State Historical Society working with the Library of Congress has digitized the main Boundary County newspapers published between 1891 and 1922. They are available and keyword searchable on the Chronicling America website.

• The Kootenai Herald 1891-1904
• The Bonners Ferry Herald 1905-1922

For other years of the Herald you can contact the Boundary County Museum, they have in the archives, Microfilms, bound volumes and unbound copies of the Kootenai and Bonners Ferry Herald, and the Bonners Ferry News, along with other individual issues of others, which are accessed by staff only.

The list of newspapers below is more than likely not complete, only the information we have found to date.

For current periodical information see our Local Resources Page

• Bonners Ferry     Kootenai herald          1891:4: 4-1904: 12: 24  -   ( *, 1, 2, 7 )
• Bonners Ferry Progress - —The Bonners Ferry Progress made its appearance this week. It is published by F. C. Fischer, from near Copeland, The politics of the paper is announced as independent. (Kootenai Herald Jan 8, 1904)  The Bonners Ferry Progress has suspended publication, the issue before election being the last. (Kootenai Herald Nov 11, 1904)     1904:1 - 1904:11   -   ( 8 )
• Bonners Ferry     Bonners Ferry Herald          1904: 12:31-9999  -   ( 1, 2. 9 )
• Boulder City       Daily Critic   published by John M. Schnatterly  1915   -   ( 3 )
• Boulder City       Daily Critic   published by W.H DeCamp 1916   -   ( 3 )
• Bonners Ferry  Kootenai Valley Times, established in 1915 - 1920 ????   -   ( 4 )
• Bonners Ferry  Kootenai Valley Times, 1917-1920   -   ( 6 )
• Porthill     Port Hill news     a monthly newspaper published by S. T. Jordan 1916:4:1  -   ( 1 )
• Bonners Ferry News   Years of publication: 1925-1930?  -   ( 3, 5 )
• Bonners Ferry     Kootenai Valley sentinel & Bonners Ferry times     Boundary     1932 1933:5:29: -1937:4:29  -   ( 1, 2 )
• Bonners Ferry     Daily Sentinel  1933 Jan - Mar   -   ( 6 )
• Yaak     The New Yaak times. (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 195?-19?? (Yaak AFB paper publishish BF)    -   ( 2 )
• Bonners Ferry     Boundary County tribune       1970:4:14-1970:6:9  -   ( 1, 2 )
• Bonners Ferry  Barter times. (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1978-1979   -   ( 2 )
• North Idaho Sunday. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1984-1988    -   ( 2 )
• Bonners Ferry     Kootenai Valley times      1989:5:3-9999  -   ( 1, 6 )
• Bonners Ferry     Kootenai valley Press - 2000's   -   ( 6 )
• Bonners Ferry     Kootenai vally dally news - 1 copy put out by the Kootenai Valley times  -   ( 6 )

* The first Idaho newspaper published north of Rathdrum, the Kootenai County seat,

Tips for Searching Chronicling America -  http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/extras/

Sources:

1 -  Boundary County Newspapers - Idaho Historical Society Microfilms
2 -  Boundary County Newspapers - Library of Congress
3 -  Boundary County Historical Society Records
4 -  History of Idaho: The Gem of the Mountains, 1920 edited by James Henry Hawley

The Kootenai Valley Times, established in 1915 as a democratic weekly; A. A. Mclntyre, editor; Times Pub. Co., publishers; issued every Friday. - History of Idaho: The Gem of the Mountains, 1920 edited by James Henry Hawley Vol I pg 376
A. A. Mclntyre, editor of the Kootenai Valley Times -  A. A. Mclntyre,   In 1915 he removed to Bonners Ferry, Idaho, where he became editor of the Bonners Ferry Times, which is without question one of the best edited newspapers in the Panhandle. The Times is devoted to the dissemination of local and general news and to the discussion of all vital problems and has ever been made an organ of progress and improvement in this section of the state.    Vol 4 page 91

5 -  Only known holdings from 1928 & 1929 located at the Boundary County Museum and Historical Society
6 -  Some issues in archives at the Boundary County Museum and Historical Society
7 -  Online and searchable - https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86091083/issues/
8 -  Articles about the Bonners Ferry Progress newspaper appeared in the Kootenai Herald during 1904
9 -  Online 1904 to 1919 - https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86091084/issues/