A Note From Cottonwood Corners
News Staff
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Records from the earliest days of rustling horses, mules, and cattle on the northern prairie show a wide variety of atrocities committed by the Wessington Hills thieves. It was reported that Fred Chamberlain and others of “Doc” Middleton’s Nebraska gang bragged of hanging an old Dutchman to throw suspicion off of themselves for the stealing horses in the Niobrara River valley.
