Mr. James Lyttle was an Irish immigrant who had worked at a newspaper in Leadville, Colorado. He must have liked the work, because he purchased some basic equipment in 1883 from a defunct paper in Kokomo (near Leadville.)
Lyttle started looking for a place to set up shop. He heard the town of Meeker was getting started and might be interested in having a local newspaper, so in 1884, he took a train from Leadville to Red Cliff, as far as the railroad went at that time. Then, he rented a horse and rode to what is now Dotsero and traveled over the Flat Tops.
Lyttle liked what he saw in Meeker, so he and fellow newspaper man Jack Houston packed up all their printing equipment and brought it to town. According to local legend, the press got stuck in the mud on a pass, delaying the first issue by about two weeks (and enabling the Steamboat Pilot to claim the title of oldest newspaper in northwest Colorado).
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