In setting the scene for a Western movie, the camera from a distance shows a dusty street in front of…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
In 1892, one-hundred and three years after George Washington had placed his hand on the Bible in New York’s Federal…
The Bandits Bennie and Stella Dickson
The young couple was at the bank to make a withdrawal. Of other people’s money. At gunpoint. As reported in…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
At one time, students sitting in geography class were taught that all the land west of the Missouri River and…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
Sometime in the early 1880’s, a small band of rustlers who stole both cattle and horses west of the Missouri…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
Edward L. Senn, editor of the Pioneer, a weekly newspaper published in Iona since early 1901 had been denouncing the…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The cattle industry is indigenous (native, original) to America. The manner and scale upon which it prevailed west of the…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
In the 1890’s, cattle rustlers were well organized and active up and down the Missouri River between Nebraska and what…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
In the early days of ranching on the frontier, the stealing of livestock was usually accomplished by the simple and…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The state of Montana holds the record for the bloodiest vigilante movement from 1863 to 1865, when hundreds of suspected…