In the last half of the 1800’s, Governor Jayne appointed the following agents to take a census of the territory…
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A Note from Cottonwood Corners
While Yankton was the first point occupied by a permanent settlement of whites on the Missouri slope in Dakota, the…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
There were few towns and post offices in the Dakota Territory in 1870. The number had made a small increase…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
Through the 1870s Tackett Station appeared on several maps as a municipality called “Chouteau Creek”. In 1894, “Chouteau Creek Station”…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
One of the first areas in Dakota to be settled was the area along the northern edge of the Missouri…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
Those Native Americans living at or near the Whetstone Agency in the winter of 1870 learned from the whites that…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
During the fall of 1869 and winter of 1870, more than the usual discontent appeared among the Indians at Whetstone…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
Whetstone Agency, although some distance from any significant white settlement, was not exempt from the harmful influence of the unscrupulous…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
In 1869 there were no school houses or churches at Whetstone, neither teachers nor ministers. Poole’s predecessor did ask him…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
In 1870, Gen. D. S. Stanley was in command of the military district of Dakota, with headquarters at Fort Sully. …