The young couple was at the bank to make a withdrawal. Of other people’s money. At gunpoint. As reported in…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
At one time, students sitting in geography class were taught that all the land west of the Missouri River and…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
Sometime in the early 1880’s, a small band of rustlers who stole both cattle and horses west of the Missouri…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
Edward L. Senn, editor of the Pioneer, a weekly newspaper published in Iona since early 1901 had been denouncing the…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The cattle industry is indigenous (native, original) to America. The manner and scale upon which it prevailed west of the…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
In the 1890’s, cattle rustlers were well organized and active up and down the Missouri River between Nebraska and what…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
In the early days of ranching on the frontier, the stealing of livestock was usually accomplished by the simple and…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The state of Montana holds the record for the bloodiest vigilante movement from 1863 to 1865, when hundreds of suspected…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The first legislative session of the Dakota Territory convened on March 17, 1862 in Yankton. The organization of this first…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
In 1859 the question of securing a political organization for the Territory of Dakota was uppermost on the minds of…