O'Fallon country!

Really - I don't know why I bothered to post the little "quiz." Nobody posted any guesses; but I don't blame you. I post so infrequently (due to limited access on the road) - and it was quite out of the ordinary, considering I usually keep this blog directly related to my sabbatical...

On my way to Baker on Thursday, April 17th, 2008, I actually stopped at Pompey's Pillar. I had never been there before - always seeming to be in too much of a hurry to stop; but it's minutes from the freeway - and a very pastoral (and historical)setting. I saw lots of praitie dogs and some geese (one was actually nesting on the top of the pillar, acting as a sentinel).

When I arrived in Baker, I immediately went to the O'Fallon Museum because the director was so helpful to me via e-mail prior to my visit. Let's just say I hit the jackpot in Baker in terms of photos and biographies of the Lang family (after they left the ranch in Yule, ND). I also used the back issues of the Baker Sentinel, which were housed in the Fallon County Library; found the wills of Janet and William in the Clerk of Court's office, discovered deeds recounting land holdings of the Lang's home and businesses in the Clerk and Recorder's office, and read minutes of the early meetings of the town council from the early 1900's.

While I was in the area, I also visited Ekalaka (the Carter County Museum) and the Medicine Rocks State Park, which is just as an incredibly spititual place today, as it was to the early Indians.