WANNA HAVE SOME FUN?

[Midwest Spy]

I have an old book I think published around 1800 in it there are maps and the locations of the indian villages before the Europeans came in and claimed the land for themselves. Sometimes I like to find the old sites and see whats there now. Sometimes they are covered with a mall parking lot but sometimes I get lucky and find one that's overgrown and away from development. I never find anything but just like walking around and looking.

There's a big lake just west of Minneapolis called Lake Minnetonka.

It was discovered in 1822 by the son of the Commander of Fort Snelling at the time. I think I read the son was 17 or so, and he was accompanied by another person.

I'd love to be able to take a time machine and go back to 1822, paddling a canoe up Minnehaha creek (right next to the Fort), through Indian territory and come out into the lake.

I can't imagine the adrenaline rush of being alone in wilderness like that and not knowing what's next.

The north shore of Lake Minnetonka was a sacred Sioux burial ground at the time.

How those two survived and were able to return is pretty remarkable.