For a long time the Missouri River was South Dakota’s main highway. During the 1800s, it was our Interstate 90. …
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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…
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…