This week in History’s Attic Outhouses: you had to know this story was going to happen. BUT we are going…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The homesteaders came west to improve their economic status. This was universally the impelling motive in the westward settlement of…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
Henry Jones (most often just plain “Hank”), the veteran DeGrey postmaster, desired to get into government service. This was at…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
Because of the Homestead Act, the public land passed into private hands so quickly that by 1885 all Dakota east…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
From the very beginning, the rural school in South Dakota during the first half of the 1900’s served as a…
History’s Attic
This week in History’s Attic You ever been out in a field in a hot August day not a…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
Chevalier and Francois Verendrye were fur traders who built trading posts across Canada and down into what was later to…
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…
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…