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…
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…
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…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
Consistent with naval law and practice, from the beginning of the expedition Lewis and Clark ordered the men in charge…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
Not knowing exactly how many Indian tribes they would encounter between St. Louis and the Pacific Ocean, Lewis and Clark…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The work of the cowboy on the yearly roundups west of the Missouri River was hard and dangerous. A day…
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…
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