This next series of articles are about the big and mysterious history of Sioux City, Iowa. The focus of this series is the murder of Thomas Roberts and Henry Cordura. The articles will tell the story of the events that lead up to the murder and what happened after. The story will show this early part of Sioux City history is more than just a straight time line of events but more as a spoke wheel with Sioux City as the hub in the center. The area surrounding Sioux City includes SW Minnesota, SE South Dakota, NE Nebraska and NW Iowa. There is mystery associated with some of these events, other events would never have occurred were it not for a preceding event, while other events are connected by a very loose tangent. Hopefully this story will interest and intrigue others.
The articles will include both verified facts about true events that occurred in Sioux City's early history along with stating likely or possible facts about the incidents that took place through out this history.
Ninety percent of the research was conducted at the Sioux City Public Museum and Research Center. It took countless hours and several months to research and collect all the material and information that will be published in these articles. The other 5 percent was a combination of asking people outside of the public museum system questions and researching online. The research was conducted in an objective manner.
The objective of this historical account is to help others come to their own logical conclusion as to what happened and perhaps even why.
The digital photos of the documents were edited for clarity and size but the content of the documents shown in the publish articles was not altered. All material researched and copied was done so with permission at a public research facility, (the Sioux City Public Museum Research Center).
Though the material researched was done in an objective manner some of the content of the copied documents that will be published in these articles may offend some. Some of the materials contain biased, racist, and bigoted comments, language, remarks, ideas, attitudes and ideals. This is how people thought, talked and acted in the 19th and early 20th century's. Reader discretion is advised. If you are easily offended by what is today considered politically incorrect statements and content it is recommended you read no further than this introduction article. The blog author does not share the same attitude, ideas, ideals or agree with the bias and racism shown, portrayed and displayed in the research materials.
All copies of the documents from the Sioux City Public Museum Research Center may be copied out of the these articles and reused. These are all in the form of digital photographs. However any typed content authored by the blog admin/creator may not be used without the written consent of the author of these articles.
Comments are welcomed and allowed on any of these articles. However you shall be a member of Google as anonymous comments are not allowed. All comments shall not include vulgar language, cruelty or threats. All Comments shall be civil. Only the blog author can approve whether or not a comment is published. The blog author has the right to deny the publishing of any comments.
There will be gaps in between publishing the articles that may go as long as a week. Please be patient as it takes time to put the articles together.
Please sit back and enjoy reading about the early history of Sioux City, Iowa.
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