Late in the afternoon as the sun sent its last slanting rays over the broad prairie of Dakota Territory, travelers…
Author: Gregory County Historical Society (page 6)
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…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
During the thirty-six years and five months that Fort Randall stood on the west bank of the Missouri River, the…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
During April and May of 1866, thirty-six steamboats passed Yankton, all heavily loaded with equipment and supplies which were needed…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
At the bottom of the Missouri River and in the old channels of that treacherous stream lie cargoes of sunken…