The Wyoming Digital Newspaper Collection can be accessed by clicking this link.
Currently, access to full-text content of all newspapers is limited to University of Wyoming students, faculty, and staff. Click the "Register" menu item and set-up an account using your UW username and password. PDFs of any of the public domain and copyright protected content are immediately available.
Non-UW patrons have access to all public domain content (i.e., newspapers published before 1924). However, newspapers published after 1924 are still protected by US Copyright law and cannot be directly accessed. To obtain PDF copies of copyright protected articles, submit an interlibrary loan (ILL) request through their local public or academic library. Any costs associated with the request are assess by the patron's library, not UW.
Program History:
The National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) is an ongoing venture between the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Library of Congress, and cultural institutions across the United States to create a public, searchable database of U.S. newspapers.
The University of Wyoming received a grant to digitize their state newspaper collection in 2019, with the goal of submitting approximately 100,000 pages from various Wyoming newspaper titles in the first phase. In September 2020 the first batch, containing The Northern Wyoming Herald and Garland Irrigation Era and The Northern Wyoming Herald, is available on Chronicling America. Since then, many more years of Wyoming newspapers have been added to the collection and more are added each month.
More information on the project can be found on the libraries Digital Initiatives page under Highlighted Projects.