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A Note from Cottonwood Corners

It was an old-timer’s vivid account of South Dakota’s last big cattle roundup in 1902 that inspired Bert Hall of…

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A Note from Cottonwood Corners

The year of 1872 was in many respects a notable and memorable one in the history of the Dakota Territory…

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A Note from Cottonwood Corners

The earliest known map revealing the Dakota country is the DeL’lsle map of 1701.  On that map, a trail (early…

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A Note from Cottonwood Corners

The Missouri River from its source in the Rocky Mountains to its junction with the Mississippi is 2,963 miles long. …

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A Note from Cottonwood Corners

As soon as the courier arrived at Fort Laramie with the news that gold had been discovered in the Black…

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A Note from Cottonwood Corners

The origin of “Sky Pilot” as a reference to missionary, pastor, or clergyman is unknown and there is no record…

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A Note from Cottonwood Corners

From the earliest settlement of America by those coming from Europe, the religious denominations, through their missionaries and pastors, were…

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A Note from Cottonwood Corners

In the second session of the Legislative Assembly for the Dakota Territory, the legislature meeting at Yankton passed a law…

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A Note from Cottonwood Corners

By the middle of the 1880s, barb wire had come to South Dakota.  About fifteen years later, cowboys rounding up…

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A Note from Cottonwood Corners

The Sioux made up a large part of the Great Plains Indian population in the late 1700s.  In 1780 it…

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