* Miller County Liberal official website of newspaper founded in 1897 by Zula Cook Brown Toole

* E. Miller, Konradin von Hohenstaufen ( Berlin, 1897 )

* Download recording of a courtship song from the Library of Congress ' Omaha Indian Music Collection ; performed by George Miller in 1897, collected by Alice Cunningham Fletcher and Francis La Flesche

In 1896 and 1897 Chanute, Herring and Avery tested hang gliders based on designs by German aviator Otto Lilienthal, as well as hang gliders of their own design, in the sandhills on the shores of Lake Michigan near the town of Miller Beach not far from what would become the city of Gary, Indiana.

* John Miller ( footballer born 1897 ) ( 1897 –?

From 1900 to 1950, Sinclair Lewis ( 1885 – 1951 ), William Faulkner ( 1897 – 1962 ), Henry Miller ( 1891 – 1980 ), Ernest Hemingway ( 1899 – 1961 ), John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), Richard Wright ( 1908 – 1960 ), William Saroyan ( 1908 – 1981 ), Nelson Algren ( 1909 – 1981 ), Paul Bowles ( 1910 – 1999 ), Jerome Salinger ( 1919 – 2009 ), Norman Mailer ( 1923 – 2007 ), and Gore Vidal ( 1925 – 2012 ).

It was the preferred site for the Exposition early in 1897. surrounding the tract that became Miller Park was considered the strongest contender towards the middle of the year.

Many of Smith's early films, including The Miller and the Sweep and Old Man Drinking a Glass of Beer ( both 1897 ) were comedies thanks to the influence of his wife, Laura Bayley, who had previously acted in pantomime and comic revue.

* The Miller and the Sweep ( 1897 )

* Miller Huggins ( 1897 ), managed Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees, inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1964

Alfred Perlès ( 1897 – 1990 ) was an Austrian writer ( in later life a British citizen ), who was most famous for his associations with Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, and Anaïs Nin.

In 1897 in Munich, Rainer Maria Rilke met and fell in love with the widely traveled, intellectual woman of letters Lou Andreas-Salomé.

Thousands of miners traveled up the Stikine River into the Cassiar District of British Columbia during 1874, and again to the Klondike in 1897.

In 1897, he traveled the entire stretch of rocky coast from Carmel to San Simeon, and photographed the land, earning him credit as the first surveyor of area.

She traveled to London during 1897, the year of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, hoping to find a buyer for her rubies and other jewels to raise funds for the university ; however, she was not able to sell them at that time.

In 1897, a live bear cub traveled with UM's football team, then known as the " Bears " ( the " Grizzlies " name was adopted in 1923 ).

After graduating from Harvard in 1897, he traveled in Europe for three years, residing in Rome, Switzerland and London, studying at the University of Leipzig in 1899 – 1900.

After Gandhi moved to South Africa to practice law, she traveled to South Africa in 1897 to be with her husband.

After being popularised by the brothers Louis Jean and Auguste Marie Lumière, the cinematographe traveled through several capital cities in the Americas before arriving in Havana, which occurred on January 24, 1897.

In 1897 Manilal traveled to South Africa for the first time, where he spent time working at the Phoenix Ashram near Durban.

Barnabas traveled back in time to 1897 to prevent these events by changing history.

He traveled with his wife to Japan as an agent for Western Electric in October 1897.

After George Hepworth, a preeminent journalist of the late nineteenth century, traveled through Ottoman Armenia in 1897, he wrote Through Armenia on Horseback, which discusses the causes and effects of the recent massacres.

In 1897 Chilembwe traveled with Booth to Lynchburg, Virginia, where he attended Virginia Theological College, a small African-American seminary.

In 1897, he traveled to Paris, and studied with Jean Dampt.

The largest confirmed size for this species was a bull shot at the Yukon River in September 1897 that weighed 820 kg ( 1, 800 lb ) and measured high at the shoulder.

During the gold rush of 1897, it was a major gateway to the interior via the Yukon River.

In 1897, he joined the Klondike Gold Rush in Canada's Yukon Territory, leaving Seattle with countless others.

In 1897, the Canadian government received 32 proposals for Yukon railroads, and most were never realized.

In 1897, three separate companies were organized to build a rail link from Skagway to Fort Selkirk, Yukon, away.

From 1897 to 1898 it furnished one of the laboureous routes to the Klondike Gold Rush in the Yukon Territory.

As a writer for Harper's Weekly, he was sent with his camera to the Yukon from 1897 to 1898.

Porter continued travel to the arctic with Peary and Greenland again in 1896, to Baffin Island in 1897, with the Yukon gold rush in 1898, to Labrador in 1899, and northern Greenland in 1900.

He was re-elected to the same position in 1898, and 1902 On October 7, 1897, he became a Member of the first Executive Council of the Northwest Territories which administered the affairs of the area that presently comprises Alberta, Saskatchewan, and the Yukon.

McGregor was one of several pioneers to the Yukon following the Klondike Gold Rush of 1896, and served as Mine Inspector of the Yukon Territory from 1897 to 1899.

With the Klondike Gold Rush, a number of folk songs from the Yukon became popular, including " Rush to the Klondike " ( 1897, written by W. T. Diefenbaker ), " The Klondike Gold Rush ", " I've Got the Klondike Fever " ( 1898 ) and " La Chanson du Klondyke ".

In 1897, the brothers agreed that Asahel should go to the Yukon and document the Klondike Gold Rush.

Selous journeyed in pursuit of big game to Europe ( Bavaria, Germany in 1870, Transylvania, then Hungary but now Romania in 1899, Mull Island, Scotland in 1894, Sardinia in 1902, Norway in 1907 ), Asia ( Turkey, Persia, Caucasus in 1894-95, 1897, 1907 ), North America ( Wyoming, Rocky Mountains in 1897 and 1898, Eastern Canada in 1900-1901, 1905, Alaska and Yukon in 1904, 1905 ) and the " dark continent " in a territory that extends from today ’ s South Africa and Namibia all the way up into central Sudan where he collected virtually every specimen of all medium and large African mammal species.

In August 1897, during the height of the Klondike Gold Rush, Walsh was appointed Commissioner of the newly-created Yukon Territory.

In the following year, he went back to the Yukon with a force of 20 men who were in place when the Klondike Gold Rush started in 1897.

* 1897 – Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper, La Fronde, in Paris.

Printed in 1897, the novel is compiled entirely of letters, diary entries, newspaper clippings, telegrams, doctor's notes, ship's logs, and the like, which Stoker adroitly employs to balance believability and dramatic tension.

* Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1897 ) uses not only letters and diaries, but also dictation cylinders and newspaper accounts.

An 1897 suffragist newspaper reported a series of receptions in Boston honoring Tubman and her lifetime of service to the nation.

In 1897, when he was 21 and a student at the University of California, Berkeley, London searched for and read the newspaper accounts of his mother's suicide attempt and the name of his biological father.

He was a lead editorial writer on his brother's newspaper, the New York Sun, and it was in that capacity that in 1897 he wrote his most famous editorial, Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.

According to page 7 of the book Coraopolis, by Gia Tatone, Coraopolis Historical Society ( 2007 ), " The newspaper Frank Braden, Jr. uncovered was simply called the News and was published in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, on June 5, 1897.

* Read the Ferris Wheel newspaper, 1896 – 1897, hosted by the Portal to Texas History

Walter Winchell ( April 7, 1897 – February 20, 1972 ) was an American newspaper and radio gossip commentator.

These two founding fathers of The Forward were quick to enlist in the ranks of a new rival socialist political party founded in 1897, the Social Democratic Party of America, founded by the nationally famous leader of the 1894 American Railroad Union strike, Eugene V. Debs, and Victor L. Berger, a German-speaking teacher and newspaper publisher from Milwaukee.

When he returned to his home country in 1897, he greatly influenced his colleagues by exhibiting what one newspaper called photographs that could be " mistaken for works of art.

* Drew Pearson ( 1897 – 1969 )-Wrote syndicated newspaper column " Washington Merry-Go-Round ".

Their friendship ended late in the summer of 1897 when Pinchot released a statement to a Seattle newspaper supporting sheep grazing in forest reserves.

Marion Davies ( January 3, 1897 – September 22, 1961 ) was an American film actress, best known for her relationship with newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst.

Austrian National Socialism and hence German National Socialism can trace its origins to Cheb when Franko Stein transferred a small newspaper ( Der Hammer ) from Vienna to Cheb in 1897.

The newspaper was founded in 1897 and is published weekly on every Wednesday.

In 1897 the Rib Lake Herald newspaper began publishing and a Dr. Werner started a practice.

This newspaper also came out against ' Diana Vaughan ', an invention of Léo Taxil, before Taxil admitted that his anti-Masonic protégée did not exist in 1897.

An 1897 editorial cartoon with John Bull, Uncle Sam, and a dog symbolizing Japan from the newspaper the Hawaiian Gazette.

After studying at University of Dundee, in 1897 Forbes worked as a reporter and editorial writer with a local Dundee newspaper until 1901 when he moved to Johannesburg, South Africa, where he founded the Rand Daily Mail.

In 1897, he became an associate editor of the Alcalde, a student newspaper.

No birth certificate exists to confirm her age, and it has been reported with significant disparity, although she claimed in newspaper interviews that she was born Ruby Macie Grayer on March 20, 1897.

Despite these innovations, limitations remained, and many of the sensational newspaper and magazine stories in the period from 1897 to 1927, ( see Yellow Journalism ) were illustrated with engravings.