Steamboat service for passengers and freight began working its way up the Missouri in the 1820s, reached the mouth of…
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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
An examination of the records shows that a large portion of the business of the Missouri River steamboats pertained to…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
For a long time the Missouri River was South Dakota’s main highway. During the 1800s, it was our Interstate 90. …
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
The swift and turbulent character of the unruly Missouri River led to numerous accounts by early explorers of the difficulty…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
We do not know when the first white man entered the Missouri River, but it is probably between 1700 and…
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
When Jean Baptiste Trudeau built the “Trudeau House” on the east side of the Missouri River from where Fort Randall…