In the second session of the Legislative Assembly for the Dakota Territory, the legislature meeting at Yankton passed a law…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
By the middle of the 1880s, barb wire had come to South Dakota. About fifteen years later, cowboys rounding up…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The Sioux made up a large part of the Great Plains Indian population in the late 1700s. In 1780 it…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
In the late 1800s and the early 1900s, the islands in the Missouri River were often used by cattle rustlers…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
Early in 1902, the Federal Government ordered that all cattle not currently grazing on their home range be returned to…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
One of the first reports of a general roundup of the cattle in South Dakota appeared in the May 7,…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
When Dakota Territory as organized in 1861, the curriculum of the typical one-room school throughout the United States had as…
Wortmann Family Visits the July 13th Gregory County Historical Society
Pictured above is the Wortmann family: Meredith (10), Holly (Mother), Elizabeth (16), Sophia (14), and Meredith (10). Elizabeth & Sophia…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The Dakotas, Wyoming, and Montana were mostly mile after mile after mile of frontier and wide open range. In the…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
When gold was discovered in the Black Hills in 1874, one of the nearest approaches by rail was from Bismarck. …