In 1832, Joseph La Barge, then only seventeen years old, was working on steamboats on the Mississippi River and was…
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A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The list of post offices established in Dakota Territory up to the close of 1874 indicates the progress of white…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
During the thirty-six years and five months that Fort Randall stood on the west bank of the Missouri River, the…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
From July 19 to November 3 of 1950, a survey and excavation program (Archeological Reconnaissance of Historic Sites) was conducted…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The two states of Dakota were once part of the vast Dakotaland which extended from the Mississippi to the Missouri…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The military post, Fort Randall, stood along the west bank of the Missouri River in southeastern Gregory County for thirty-six…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
After General Harney and his men reached Fort Pierre in the late fall of 1855, he and his officers were…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The early fur trapper or mountain man was an individual in tune with the world he inhabited. Most of the…
One Hundred Years Ago: Stories from the 1922 Enterprise
Originally published in the Bonesteel Enterprise on March 16, 2022
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
With the construction of Fort Randall in Dakota Territory, on the west bank of the Missouri River just above the…