During the fall of 1869 and winter of 1870, more than the usual discontent appeared among the Indians at Whetstone…
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A Note from Cottonwood Corners
Colonel Dodge, who was the chief engineer of the Union Pacific Railway, gathered valuable statistics regarding the wholesale slaughter of…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The Omaha Daily Bee reported on May 21, 1885 that: “The American buffalo is virtually an extinct animal. There are…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The earliest settlers to the Missouri Slope (area on the north side of the Missouri River and close to the…
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…