Steamboats on the Missouri River were constantly zigging and zagging between the two shores because of the ever-changing sandbars which…
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A Note from Cottonwood Corners
Steamboat service for passengers and freight began working its way up the Missouri in the 1820s, reached the mouth of…
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
During April and May of 1866, thirty-six steamboats passed Yankton, all heavily loaded with equipment and supplies which were needed…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
At the bottom of the Missouri River and in the old channels of that treacherous stream lie cargoes of sunken…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The Kate Swinney was the first steamboat to be wrecked in the Missouri River within the borders of South Dakota. …
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
After General Harney and his men reached Fort Pierre in the late fall of 1855, he and his officers were…