Olympia Pioneer and Democrat

The Olympia Columbian, later known as the Washington Pioneer and the Pioneer and Democrat, was the first newspaper in what is now the U.S. state of Washington, and the seventh in the Oregon Territory.[1] It continued under several name variants, going out of print as The Pacific Tribune in 1879.[2]

References

"The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, March 28, 1926, Page 72, Image 72 « Historic Oregon Newspapers".
"The Weekly Pacific Tribune (Olympia, Wash. Terr.) 1868-1879". Library of Congress.

Further reading

Pioneer Papers of Puget Sound, Oregon Historical Quarterly, 1903
The Columbian: Washington Territory's First Newspaper, Oregon Historical Quarterly, 1963

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