[1] Originally, the newspaper was published in Omaha, Nebraska and 75 percent of its subscribers were Danish-American farmers.
Sophus Neble was a journeyman printer who had immigrated to the United States in 1883 from Stubbekøbing, Denmark.
In 1903, the staff of Den Danske Pioneer numbered 16 and the newspaper moved into newly built offices in Omaha.
In 1997, Queen Margrethe II made then-editor Chris Steffensen a Knight of the Order of Dannebrog to commemorate the newspaper's 125th anniversary.
Today the newspaper is a unit of Bertelsen Publishing Co., based in Hoffman Estates, Illinois.