The Canyon News

Canyon City went through newspapers quickly. Beginning in August 1890, the Echo, the Keystone, the Headlight and the Battleship each appeared briefly. Mrs. R. W. Morgan began publishing the Stayer in 1896; George A. Brandon bought it and renamed it the Canyon City News in 1903, and C. O. Keiser, the next owner, called it the Randall County News, with R. A. Terrill as editor. Clyde W. Warwick bought the paper in 1920 and later gave it its present name. It remains the county's only newspaper outside Amarillo.

What the plaque says

The Canyon News First city newspaper, the"Echo," was printed 1889. The "Stayer" (1896), later renamed "Randall County News," was predecessor of the "News." Clyde W. Warwick, editor 45 years, 1910-1955. Won awards for outstanding weekly 1942, 1950. Special Edition (1949) was rated nation's best. Troy Martin became editor 1960. (1968)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum — 0.7 mi
  The Panhandle's great collection, some two million objects behind a 1933 Art Deco hall carved with cattle brands, closed to the public since March 2025 over fire-safety violations.
• Buffalo Lake National Wildlife Refuge — 11 mi
  A 1938 Depression-era lake on Tierra Blanca Creek that has gone dry, now 7,664 acres of shortgrass, cottonwood canyon and a prairie dog town on the High Plains south of Umbarger.
• Palo Duro Canyon State Park — 13 mi
  The upper end of the canyon the state bought in 1933, where CCC crews built the road to the floor and the army burned the winter camps of the Comanche, Kiowa and Cheyenne in 1874.
• TEXAS Outdoor Musical — 14 mi
  A summer pageant of Panhandle settler life staged since 1966 in the Pioneer Amphitheater, built into a basin of Palo Duro Canyon below a 600-foot cliff.

More markers nearby

• Clyde & Grace Warwick — steps away
• Smith Building (Palace Hotel) — steps away
• Randall County — steps away
• The Sad Monkey Railroad — steps away