The Trona Argonaut Newspaper Collection contains nearly sixty-three years of news related to the company mining town of Trona, California. The weekly paper was published from 1923 to 1999. During the war years the newspaper won several national awards for excellence. Although the collection has no issues for the first 13 years of the paper's existence, it does provide examples of each publication year from 1936 until its last issue in 1999.

Trona is a former American Trona Corporation company mining town on the western edge of Searles Dry Lake in the Mojave Desert region of San Bernardino County, California.

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Property rights reside with the Mojave Desert Heritage and Cultural Association. For permission to reproduce or to publish, please contact the Archivist at the Mojave Desert Archives.

The collection is open for research. For access, please contact the Archivist at the Mojave Desert Archives at archivist@mdhca.org.