Ten Miles To North Dakota

7 Miles Today;  According to the weatherman, enjoy today because changes are instore for the next few days.  Possilibly 6 inches of snow on it's way.  January is almost half over and it's been like early April.  "Come on Mother Nature give Forrest your best shot.......I'm ready".....Until tomorrow, God Bless Walk Forrest Walk

WILLIAM CLARK Thursday, October 11, 1804
(near present day Pollack, SD

10 miles from North Dakota)

From Capt. William Clark's Journal (note: spelling and grammar much different in early America)"... at 11 o'clock we met the Grand Chief in Council and he made a Short Speech thanking us for what we had given him... & informed us the road was open & no one dare Shut it, & we might Depart at pleasure... we also visited the upper or 3rd Village each of which gave us Something to ate in their way, and a few bushels of Corn Beans etc. after being treated by every civility by those people who are both pore & Dirty we returned to our boat... Those people gave us to eat bread made of Corn & Beans, also Corn and Beans boiled. a large Been (of) which they rob the mice of the Prairie (who collect & discover it) which is rich & very nourishing also [S]quashes etc. all Tranquillity."