On July 12, 1879, Captain Charles Howell of the Corps of Engineers boarded the steamboat Miner at Sioux City. He…
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A Note from Cottonwood Corners
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Congress had no regard for the Missouri River as a channel of commerce. …
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…