Consistent with naval law and practice, from the beginning of the expedition Lewis and Clark ordered the men in charge…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
Not knowing exactly how many Indian tribes they would encounter between St. Louis and the Pacific Ocean, Lewis and Clark…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
Yesterday, June 14, was Flag Day. Both President Wilson, in 1916, and President Coolidge, in 1927, issued proclamations asking that…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
Hugh Glass, American frontiersman and fur trapper is best known for his survival after having been left for dead when…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The work of the cowboy on the yearly roundups west of the Missouri River was hard and dangerous. A day…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
When Jane Kramer was searching for and learning about “The Last Cowboy” in the northern panhandle of Texas in 1977,…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
Jane Kramer, one of the most admired writers for The New Yorker Magazine convinced her editor in 1977 that she…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The early fur trapper or mountain man was an individual in tune with the world he inhabited. Most of the…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
During the first half of the 19th Century, the standard medical practice consisted of a relatively small number of treatments…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
In the last half of the 19th and earliest part of the 20th centuries, medicine was often carried out far…