The Niobrara River begins in Wyoming, flows across the high plains and rugged county of Sioux County, through the sand…
Author: Gregory County Historical Society (page 16)
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
Records from the earliest days of rustling horses, mules, and cattle on the northern prairie show a wide variety of…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
Those early settlers (really squatters) who established a residence in what is today Gregory and Tripp counties had three different…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The significance and importance of the blacksmith in the frontier communities of the 1800s is eloquently documented by the renowned…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
On May 16, 1904, Mary Sully, at the age of 53, was once again a widow and left with eight…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
As soon as Jack Sully was shot near his home on the morning of May 16, 1904, a gathering began…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The Dakota Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States which was established on March 2, 1861. It…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
Area newspapers and law enforcement personnel during the later part of the 1800s and the earliest part of the 1900s…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
It was an old-timer’s vivid account of South Dakota’s last big cattle roundup in 1902 that inspired Bert Hall of…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The early historic wagon trails across the Dakota Territory left their deep-rutted imprints on the prairie where countless oxen and…