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…
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…
History’s Attic
This week in History’s Attic – Photography studios on the Rosebud Employing street Photography at its best. It seems photographers…
History’s Attic
This Week in History’s Attic – Libraries on the Rosebud Most every town developed in the Rosebud had some sort…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…