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A Note from Cottonwood Corners

The period prior to the exploration of the southern portion of Canada west of Lake Winnipeg was full of turmoil…

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History’s Attic

This week in History’s Attic – The demise of the Home hotel in Carter, South Dakota. The Home hotel was…

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A Note from Cottonwood Corners

When the Hudson’s Bay Company began its interaction and business with the Native inhabitants of the Red River Valley above…

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History’s Attic

This week in History’s Attic – Photography studios on the Rosebud Employing street Photography at its best. It seems photographers…

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History’s Attic

This Week in History’s Attic – Libraries on the Rosebud Most every town developed in the Rosebud had some sort…

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A Note from Cottonwood Corners

During the early days of the settlement and development of the Dakota Territory, most of the activity took place in…

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A Note from Cottonwood Corners

Colonel Dodge, who was the chief engineer of the Union Pacific Railway, gathered valuable statistics regarding the wholesale slaughter of…

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A Note from Cottonwood Corners

The Omaha Daily Bee reported on May 21, 1885 that:  “The American buffalo is virtually an extinct animal.  There are…

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A Note from Cottonwood Corners

The first effort at road building by white men in what would later become Dakota Territory was in 1857.  One…

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A Note from Cottonwood Corners

The editors of the Press and Daily Dakotaian in a front-page story on November 29, 1886, informed their readers that…

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