Eighteen seventy-three was a memorable year in the progress of Dakota Territory. Spring came unusually early and farmers had started…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
Because of the danger from sandbars and snags, the captain and crew of the “Evening Star,” amid many doubts and…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
During the boating season of 1869, there were one hundred and forty-three landings made by steamboats at the Yankton Landing. …
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
Late in the afternoon as the sun sent its last slanting rays over the broad prairie of Dakota Territory, travelers…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
Steamboats on the Missouri River were constantly zigging and zagging between the two shores because of the ever-changing sandbars which…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
While stationed at McPherson Barracks, Atlanta, Georgia, in May of 1869, D. C. Poole received orders from the United States…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
One of the earliest forms of entertainment on the frontier was the medicine show. They were touring acts which traveled…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
When Edith Kohl and her sister, Ida Mary, struggled to “prove up” their claim midway between Fort Pierre and Presho,…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The Homestead Act of 1862 opened South Dakota to settlement and development by Americans, explicitly allowing women to own their…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
Steamboat service for passengers and freight began working its way up the Missouri in the 1820s, reached the mouth of…