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A Note from Cottonwood Corners

In setting the scene for a Western movie, the camera from a distance shows a dusty street in front of…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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