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A Note from Cottonwood Corners

In the last half of the 19th and earliest part of the 20th centuries, medicine was often carried out far…

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A Note from Cottonwood Corners

In early America, there were many ways for someone on the frontier to die.  Those explorers and settlers were faced…

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From the Northern News

  Author Doug Spitzenberger, originally published in The Bonesteel Enterprise on April 20, 2022

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A Note from Cottonwood Corners

Those interested in the cattle ranges of the Great Plains can find some of its beginnings in the colonial times…

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A Note from Cottonwood Corners

The early colonial settlers on the east coast learned about the significant agricultural products that would be available to them…

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A Note from Cottonwood Corners

With the growth of the territory in the mid-1800s, the opening of new lands for homesteading, and the influx of…

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A Note from Cottonwood Corners

The earliest days of the cattle industry and open range in this country has produced a unique individual whose characteristics…

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A Note from Cottonwood Corners

In 1859 the question of securing a political organization for the Territory of Dakota was uppermost on the minds of…

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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,…

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A Note from Cottonwood Corners

Thomas Jefferson sent a secret appeal to Congress on January 18, 1803 to explore the Missouri River and a route…

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