Owned by Lee Enterprises, it is the only daily newspaper for south-central and southwest North Dakota.

Founded in 1873 by Clement A. Lounsberry, the Bismarck Tribune published its first issue on July 11, 1873.

[3][4] The Tribune's first claim to fame came in 1876, when the three-year-old paper published the first reports of George Custer's last stand at the Little Bighorn.

[5] Reporter Mark H. Kellogg accompanied Custer and his men and died during the battle.

[6] In 1938, the paper won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service after publishing a series of articles called "Self-Help in the Dust Bowl."