In 1876, The Journal was an active purveyor of Black Hills gold rush news. Because of Sioux City's position on the Missouri River, the area was a major waypoint on the way to the Black Hills. The Journal carried extensive reports of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, though the first reports didn't arrive until a week and a half after the event, likely due to poor mail service and a lack of telegraph wires in the thinly populated Dakota Territory.
Hero-aviator Charles A. Lindbergh flew his Spirit of St. Louis to Rickenbacker Field in North Sioux City on Aug. 27, 1927, only three months after his solo flight across the Atlantic. He was greeted by Sioux City Mayor Stewart Gilman.
A Japanese aerial photo taken during the Pearl Harbor attack shows the USS Utah (third from left) capsized at its mooring on the northwest side of Ford Island Dec. 7, 1941.
The photograph that symbolized the 1989 rescue effort in Sioux City: Spencer Bailey, 3, is carried from the wreckage of United Flight 232 after it crashed at Sioux Gateway Airport on July 19, 1989. Lt. Col. Dennis Nielsen of the 185th Fighter Wing, Iowa Air National Guard, carries Bailey.
In 1876, The Journal was an active purveyor of Black Hills gold rush news. Because of Sioux City's position on the Missouri River, the area was a major waypoint on the way to the Black Hills. The Journal carried extensive reports of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, though the first reports didn't arrive until a week and a half after the event, likely due to poor mail service and a lack of telegraph wires in the thinly populated Dakota Territory.
Hero-aviator Charles A. Lindbergh flew his Spirit of St. Louis to Rickenbacker Field in North Sioux City on Aug. 27, 1927, only three months after his solo flight across the Atlantic. He was greeted by Sioux City Mayor Stewart Gilman.
The photograph that symbolized the 1989 rescue effort in Sioux City: Spencer Bailey, 3, is carried from the wreckage of United Flight 232 after it crashed at Sioux Gateway Airport on July 19, 1989. Lt. Col. Dennis Nielsen of the 185th Fighter Wing, Iowa Air National Guard, carries Bailey.
A Japanese aerial photo taken during the Pearl Harbor attack shows the USS Utah (third from left) capsized at its mooring on the northwest side of Ford Island Dec. 7, 1941.
