The ''Cody Enterprise'' is a

newspaper A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sport ...

Cody, Wyoming Cody is a city in Northwest Wyoming and the seat of government of Park County, Wyoming, United States. It is named after Colonel William Frederick " Buffalo Bill" Cody for his part in the founding of Cody in 1896. The population was 10,066 at ...

History

It was established by

Buffalo Bill William Frederick Cody (February 26, 1846January 10, 1917), known as "Buffalo Bill", was an American soldier, bison hunter, and showman. He was born in Le Claire, Iowa Territory (now the U.S. state of Iowa), but he lived for several years ...

and John Peake in 1899.Official website, About Us
/ref>Brian Hurlbut, ''Insiders' Guide to Yellowstone & Grand Teton'', Globe Pequot, 2011, p. 327; online at
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/ref>Richard S. Wheeler, ''The Honorable Cody'', Sunstone Press, 2006, p. 16

/ref>Richard W. Slatta, ''The Mythical West: An Encyclopedia of Legend, Lore, and Popular Culture'', ABC-CLIO, 2001, p. 9

/ref> The first issue appeared on August 31, 1899, and it was firmly established in 1902.Don Russell, ''The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill'', University of Oklahoma Press, 1979, p. 42

/ref> In 1904, it was bought by Caroline Lockhart, a Prohibition crusader and novelist originally from

Boston Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the capital city, state capital and List of municipalities in Massachusetts, most populous city of the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financ ...

.Don Pitcher, ''Moon Handbooks Wyoming'', Avalon Books, 2006, p. 559
/ref>Charlotte Dixon, ''Beautiful America's Wyoming'', Beautiful America Publishing Co., 199

/ref> She served as owner and editor from 1904 to 1962. In the summer of 1936, it featured articles about artists Edward Thomas Grigware and Stan Kershaw.Terry Winchell, Thomas Molesworth, ''Molesworth: The Pioneer of Western Design'', Gibbs Smith, 2005, p. 2

/ref> It is now owned by independent publisher J. Louie Mullen of Buffalo, Wyoming. It is published twice weekly. It has a circulation of 4,675.

References

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