A short news story of May 7 with a dateline of Wheeler, S.D., appeared in a number of 1906 South…
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A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The key factors that shaped U.S. Indian policy and led to the fractured state of Indian land tenure in Indian…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
In Volume III of his “History of Dakota Territory” which was published in 1915, George Kingsbury wrote: “From 1899 to…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The Niobrara River begins in Wyoming, flows across the high plains and rugged county of Sioux County, through the sand…
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…