The Kate Swinney was the first steamboat to be wrecked in the Missouri River within the borders of South Dakota. …
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A Note from Cottonwood Corners
In Volume III of his “History of Dakota Territory” which was published in 1915, George Kingsbury wrote: “From 1899 to…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
Records from the earliest days of rustling horses, mules, and cattle on the northern prairie show a wide variety of…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
Area newspapers and law enforcement personnel during the later part of the 1800s and the earliest part of the 1900s…
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 early days of ranching on the frontier, the stealing of livestock was usually accomplished by the simple and…