When Jean Baptiste Trudeau built the “Trudeau House” on the east side of the Missouri River from where Fort Randall…
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A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The Missouri River, at 2,540 miles in length, is one of the Nation’s most historic arteries. It was the primary…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
“American School Children are taught that Lewis and Clark were the first white men to penetrate the interior and therefore…
A Note from Cottonwood Corners
The Homestead Act of 1862 which was passed on May 20th accelerated the settlement of the western territory by granting…
Note from Cottonwood Corners
A Sioux Falls, July 10 story was printed in The Madison Daily Leader on July 11, 1908 with this headline: …
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…
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…
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…
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. …
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…