Nevada Online Historical Newspapers

There are about 650 newspapers that have been published in the the Silver State - certainly not all of them are searchable online. But there are several that are indeed available. So go for it - find articles about the events, history, and people that capture the stories of Nevada. 

Please note that I have not always entered the dates that are included in the collections, as I suspect they will change as more items are digitized. Also I suspect that some of these links may change over time - so if there is a dead link - please use your favorite search engine to find their new location. 

(Updated December, 2020; recently added links are in BOLD)

Statewide Collections:

Chronicling America - Nevada

• Battle Mountain, Nev., 1885-1907 - The Central Nevadan.
• Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev., 1901-1909 - Tonopah bonanza.
• Carson City, Nev., 1865-1870 - The Carson daily appeal.
• Carson City, Nev., 1870-1872 - The Daily state register.
• Carson City, Nev., 1872-1873 - The new daily appeal. [volume]
• Carson City, Nev., 1873-1877 - Carson daily appeal.
• Carson City, Nev., 1877-1906 - Morning appeal.
• Carson City, Nev., 1906-1907 - The daily appeal.
• Carson City, Nev., 1907-1930 - Carson City daily appeal.
• East Ely, Nev., 1910-1920 - White Pine news weekly mining review.
• East Ely, Nev., 1920-1923 - White Pine news.
• Elko, Nev., 1869-1872 - The Elko independent.
• Elko, Nev., 1872-1887 - The Weekly Elko independent.
• Elko, Nev., 188?-1915 = Daily independent.
• Elko, Nev., 1887-1914 - Weekly independent.
• Elko, Nev., 1915-current - Elko independent.
• Ely, Nev., 1906-1910 - The White Pine news.
• Eureka, Nev., 1871-1887 - Eureka daily sentinel. [volume]
• Eureka, Nev., 1887-1902 - Eureka weekly sentinel.
• Eureka, Nev., 1902-current - The Eureka sentinel.
• Fallon, Nev, 1903-1908 - Churchill standard.
• Gardnerville, Nev., 1904-current - The Record-courier.
• Genoa, Nev., 1899-1904 - The Courier.
• Goldfield, Nev., 1911-1947 - The Goldfield news and weekly tribune.
• Goldfield, Nev., 1904-1911 - The Goldfield news.
• Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.], 1863-1882 - Gold Hill daily news.
• Hawthorne, Nev., 1883-1926 - Walker Lake bulletin.
• Las Vegas, Nev., 1905-1906 - Las Vegas times. [volume]
• Las Vegas, Nev., 1905-1947 - Las Vegas age. [volume]
• Pioche City, Lincoln County, Nev., 1870-1872 - The Ely record.
• Pioche, Nev., 1872-1876 - Pioche daily record.
• Pioche, Nev., 1877-1900 - The Pioche weekly record.
• Pioche, Nev., 1900-1905 - Lincoln County record.
• Pioche, Nev., 1906-1908 - The Pioche weekly record.
• Pioche, Nev., 1908-1925 - The Pioche record.
• Pioche, Nevada, 1876-1876 - The Pioche tri-weekly record [volume]
• Silver City, Nev., 1874-1907 - Lyon County times. [volume]
• Tonopah, Nev., 1906-1929 - Tonopah daily bonanza.
• Treasure City, Nev., 1868-1906 - The White Pine news.
• Unionville, Nev., 1870-1903 - The Silver state. [volume]
• Wadsworth, Nev., 1892-1899 - The Wadsworth dispatch.
• Wadsworth, Nev., 1899-1904 - Wadsworth semi-weekly dispatch.
• Wadsworth, Nev., 1904-1904 - The Wadsworth dispatch.
• Winnemucca, Nev., 1903-1907 - The Daily silver state.
• Winnemucca, Nev., 1907-1909 - The Silver state news.
• Winnemucca, Nev., 1909-1925 - The Silver state.
• Yerington, Nev., 1907-1932 - Yerington times. [volume]

Google News Archive

• Hawthorne - Mineral County Independent and Hawthrone News
• Hawthorne - Mineral County Independent-News
• Las Vegas - Las Vegas Times
• Overton - Moapa Valley Progress
• Pahrump - Death Valley Gateway Gazette
• Pahrump - Mirror
• Pahrump - The Mirror
• Pahrump - Pahrump Valley Gazette

Cooperative Libraries Automated Network

• Daily Territorial Enterprise
• The Free Press
• Goodsprings Gazette
• The Lovelock Tribune
• Reese River Reveille
• Virginia Evening Bulletin
• Virginia Evening Chronicle
• Wadsworth Dispatch
• White Pine News
• Nevada Historical Society Quarterly
• Historical Nevada Collections

County and Library Collections:

​Douglas County
Douglas County Public Library

• Carson Valley News 
• Courier 
• Gardnerville Record 
• Genoa Courier 
• Genoa Weekly Courier 
• Minden Times 
• Record 
• Record Courier 
• The Record-Courier

Carson City Newspaper Index 

• Nevada Daily Appeal
• Morning Appeal
• Carson Daily Index
• Daily Index 

Henderson Digital Public Library

• The Big Job
• Basic Bombardier
• Henderson Home News

White Pine County Library

• Ely Daily Times
• The White Pine News

Student Collections:

College of Southern Nevada - Las Vegas

• Coyote Student News

Nevada State College - Henderson

• Scorpion's Tale

Sierra Nevada College - Incline Village

• ​Eagle's Eye

Truckee Meadows Community College - Reno

• Echo

University of Nevada - Reno

• Sagebrush

University of Nevada - Las Vegas

• UNLV Rebel Yell

Miscellaneous Collections and Indexes:

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Newspapers 1933-1942​

• Boulder City - Boulder Dam Beacon 
• Boulder City - Boulder City Reminder (Company 573)
• Boulder City - Lake Mead Breeze (Company 573)
• Bunkerville - Cross Country Courier (Company 537)
• Cherry Creek - 1705 Blister (Company 1705)
• Ely - Indian Springs Weekly (Company 2532)
• Ely - War Whoop (Company 2532)
• Fallon - 295 Blast (Company 295)
• Moapa - Desert Whispers (Company 4419)
• Oreana - Desert Press (Company 225)
• Reno - Camp Reno Stooge (Company 258)
• Reno - Camp Reno Stooge (Company 258)
• Reno - Reno Stooge (Company 258)
• Wells - Warm Creek Whistler

Independent Voices - Alternative Press

• Many Smokes

Small Town Papers

• Mineral County Independent-News Hawthorne, Nevada
• Moapa Valley Progress Overton, Nevada
• Pahrump Mirror Pahrump, Nevada

Old Fulton Postcards

• GoldField Nevada Chronicle

The Olden Times - Nevada

Newspaper Abstracts - Nevada

Other Free Sites:
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Las Vegas

• BMI Newsletters 
• Las Vegas Age
• Las Vegas Times
• Las Vegas Age 
• Las Vegas Israelite of Nevada

Virginia City

• The Virginia daily union  ​