Use these search boxes to search the newspapers in the CONTENTdm database. A search will bring up images of pages in JPEG format. To enlarge and read a page using the MrSID Browser Plug-in, scroll to the bottom of the image and click on Show Page Description link. Then click on the Full Resolution link.

To browse an issue of the Vernal Express, first choose a year in the left-hand menu.Then select the issue date in the right-hand menu:

The Uintah Pappoose/Vernal Express

Kate Jean Boan was founder and editor of the Uintah Pappoose, the pioneer newspaper of eastern Utah. She purchased a printing press from Sears and Roebuck, and began publishing the four-page weekly paper in 1891. In 1892 she sold the newspaper to James Barker, who changed the name to the Vernal Express.

Kate Jean Boan, a colorful pioneer woman, died August 19, 1911. Her obituary, in the August 25 issue, stated that "she was of the dynamic type, a woman not to be led but to lead, the kind that could plant the flagstaff of the press in a frontier country and dare to dip her pen in vitrol if she thought it need be."

The Utah Digital Newspapers project wishes to thank Uintah County Library for letting us use The Vernal Express Newspaper Index for our database.