Memphis Avalanche

The Memphis Avalanche, also Memphis Daily Avalanche, was a newspaper of Tennessee in the United States that was published from 1858 to 1862, and then from 1866 until 1890.^[1] The Memphis Avalanche-Appeal was published from 1890 to 1894.^[2] The Avalanche supported secession prior to the American Civil War, and opposed the Republican Party for the remainder of its existence.^[1] M. C. Galloway and W. H. Rhea were the editors and publishers circa 1868.^[3]

Memphis Avalanche ad in Memphis city directory, 1870

The poetry of Lillian Rozell Messenger was first published in the Avalanche under the pen name Zena Clifton.^[4]