With the construction of Fort Randall in Dakota Territory, on the west bank of the Missouri River just above the…
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A Note from Cottonwood Corners
By the time Lewis and Clark visited South Dakota in late August of 1804, mountain men and trappers had already…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
Fivemile Creek is located on the west side of the river just above the Lyman County line directly across from…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
In South Dakota, habitat destruction has been the major reason for the population decline of both the Piping Plover and…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The magnitude and rapidity of the changes of the river channel were remarkable. Many times there would be a shifting…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The Missouri River was always commercially the most important waterway in the area. Steamers never ventured on any other South…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The Missouri River was a major route of transcontinental travel as explorers, mountain men, trappers, and adventurers wondered what was…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
It was one hundred and ninety-eight years ago last Wednesday that the first act of Christian worship was recorded in…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
With the construction of the six Corp of Engineers dams on the upper Missouri River, there were what some referred…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
It was about four o’clock in the afternoon of May 14, 1804 when nearly four dozen carefully selected young men,…