Golden has been served by its own newspaper for well over a century.
George West published the Western Mountaineer for one year, ending in December of 1860. He spent 1861 driving freight wagons, 1862-1865 serving in the Civil War, and 1866 helping his friend William Byers publish the newly-founded Rocky Mountain News.
In 1866, West returned to Golden to begin publishing his own newspaper once again (this time called the Colorado Transcript). The Transcript is now the second-oldest newspaper in Colorado, with only the Rocky Mountain News pre-dating it.
Over the years, the Transcript has been housed in 4 different buildings. This picture is an interior shot of the Transcript at 1115 Washington Avenue, which the newspaper occupied from 1870 - 1967. It shows Oscar Goetz and Eva Nixon Ashland hard at work.
Thanks to Golden historian Richard Gardner for some of the information given above.
