Winter's Back

7 Miles Today;  As daylight approaches I'm about to head outside and walk. My walking week fell a little short of my weekly goal of 50 miles.   With a temperature of19 degrees and a very sunny day my walk went pretty good today.  What little snow that was on the roads didn't cause much of a problem.   Until tomorrow, Walk Forrest Walk 

Forrest's Virtual Journal Update

A Few Miles South Of Mandan, North Dakota

From The Lewis & Clark Archives

October 18, 1804
Passed the mouth of the Cannonball River, the river takes its name from those stones which resemble Cannon Balls. We met two Frenchmen in a perogue  descending from hunting & complained of the Mandans robing them of 4 traps their furs & several articles… in the evening I walked on the shore with a view to see some of those remarkable places mentioned by a man named John Evans, none of which I could find.

John Evans, a young man from Wales, (Great Britain).  He had made the most formidable effort before Lewis & Clark to explore the Upper Missouri. The expedition was using a copy of his drawn map, which was sent to Lewis by Jefferson.

October 19, 1804In walking along the shore we counted fifty-two herds of buffalo Mandan villages, the first ruins we have seen of that nation in ascending the Missouri. to be continued