The earliest settlers to the Missouri Slope (area on the north side of the Missouri River and close to the…
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A Note from Cottonwood Corners
When Jean Baptiste Trudeau built the “Trudeau House” on the east side of the Missouri River from where Fort Randall…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The Missouri River, at 2,540 miles in length, is one of the Nation’s most historic arteries. It was the primary…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
“American School Children are taught that Lewis and Clark were the first white men to penetrate the interior and therefore…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
Local floods on the streams and small rivers occurred at frequent intervals throughout our history. In general, 1908 appears to…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The Daily Press and Dakotan of March 8, 1880, reported on page one that “A large amount of ice is…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
“WILD MISSOURI SWEEPS VALLEY — A River Gone Mad — 100,000 Persons Homeless in Nation’s Worst Domestic Disaster” was the…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The Missouri River from its source in the Rocky Mountains to its junction with the Mississippi is 2,963 miles long. …
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
As soon as the courier arrived at Fort Laramie with the news that gold had been discovered in the Black…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
In the late 1800s and the early 1900s, the islands in the Missouri River were often used by cattle rustlers…