The earliest days of the cattle industry and open range in this country has produced a unique individual whose characteristics…
Author: Gregory County Historical Society
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
In March of 2020, the South Dakota Legislature passed Senate Bill 55 which required the Board of Regents to assemble…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
Because of the debt which the State of South Dakota had and the possibility of only limited funds in the…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
In setting the scene for a Western movie, the camera from a distance shows a dusty street in front of…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
In 1892, one-hundred and three years after George Washington had placed his hand on the Bible in New York’s Federal…
The Bandits Bennie and Stella Dickson
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…