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…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
In early America, there were many ways for someone on the frontier to die. Those explorers and settlers were faced…
From the Northern News
Author Doug Spitzenberger, originally published in The Bonesteel Enterprise on April 20, 2022
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
South Dakotans reading their morning newspaper in early March of this year learned that the wreckage of the Endurance, the…