The Desert Dispatch was a newspaper published in Barstow, California, from 1910 to 2017.
History
On July 15, 1910, T.G. Nicklin published the first edition of the Barstow Printer.[1] Nicklin sold the paper in 1912 to F.M. LaSage.[2]
In 1933, R.E. Forbush started the Barstow Weekly Review.[3] In October 1936, Caryl Krouser purchased the Barstow Printer from Lloyd E. Tiernan, who operated the paper for two decades.[4] That November, Krouser and Forbush merged their papers to form the Barstow Printer-Review.[3]
On July 3, 1958, Charles K. Dooley, owner of the Colton Courier, published the first edition of the Desert Dispatch in Barstow.