When the Hudson’s Bay Company began its interaction and business with the Native inhabitants of the Red River Valley above…
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A Note from Cottonwood Corners
During the early days of the settlement and development of the Dakota Territory, most of the activity took place in…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The first effort at road building by white men in what would later become Dakota Territory was in 1857. One…
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 organization of the Dakota Territory by the U.S. Congress in the spring of 1861 resulted in attracting wide attention…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
In May of 1858, a group of men and women from Manitorville, Minnesota, were on their way to Pike’s Peak…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The “Territory of Dakota,” with the exception a portion of the northeast corner, was a part of “The Louisiana Territory”…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The year of 1872 was in many respects a notable and memorable one in the history of the Dakota Territory…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
Antoine Bijou, a French Canadian, established a trading post in 1813 on the east side of the Missouri River below…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
In the second session of the Legislative Assembly for the Dakota Territory, the legislature meeting at Yankton passed a law…