Reading Across Missouri

Reading Across Missouri: Celebrate the 100th anniversary of Missouri’s 1st newspaper

Each new year, newspapers across the state publish a historical fiction serialized story for young readers to teach about Missouri history and encourage children to read inside their local newspaper. This year’s story, “Pressing West: A Page in History” will share with young readers the story of the Missouri Gazette, Missouri’s first newspaper, which began publishing July 12, 1808.

Read “Pressing West” beginning this week only in your newspaper.