The early fur trapper or mountain man was an individual in tune with the world he inhabited. Most of the…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
During the first half of the 19th Century, the standard medical practice consisted of a relatively small number of treatments…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
In the last half of the 19th and earliest part of the 20th centuries, medicine was often carried out far…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
In early America, there were many ways for someone on the frontier to die. Those explorers and settlers were faced…
From the Northern News
Author Doug Spitzenberger, originally published in The Bonesteel Enterprise on April 20, 2022
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
South Dakotans reading their morning newspaper in early March of this year learned that the wreckage of the Endurance, the…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
Those interested in the cattle ranges of the Great Plains can find some of its beginnings in the colonial times…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The early colonial settlers on the east coast learned about the significant agricultural products that would be available to them…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
While doing research on the history of horse roundups in America, I came across an amazing event which took place…
One Hundred Years Ago: Stories from the 1922 Enterprise
Originally published in the Bonesteel Enterprise on March 16, 2022