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…
From the Northern News
Author Doug Spitzenberger, originally published in The Bonesteel Enterprise on April 20, 2022
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…