New Town, ND to Lund's Resort- Day 30- 52.34 mi.

You'd better believe we made a hasty retreat from the mosquito infested campsite at the New Town Marina and Recreation Area. We biked back to New Town on a bicycle-only trail that parallels route 23. We rode to the breakfast cafe in town. While we were eating, an older gentleman approached and asked where we were biking. We told him our plans and he seemed interested that we were biking the Lewis and Clark Trail. He told us that recently he had spoken to a large group of teachers about Lewis and Clark. He seemed to be somewhat of an expert so I asked him about the mystery surrounding the death of Sakakawea. (Some say she died at the age of 25 and others claim she lived to be 80. The location of her remains is a mystery as well). This gentleman turned out to be a Hidatsa Native American that had a connection to Sakakawea, so I asked him what his feeling was about her. He told us a very interesting story. He said that in 1955, he asked his 80 year-old grandmother about Sakakawea. He told us that his grandmother told him that Sakakawea was not the Native American the history books contend...
Seventh Graders: What Native American tribe do the historical accounts say that Sakakawea originally was?
...His grandmother told him that Sakakawea was a Hidatsa, not as history recorded and furthermore, their family was related to Sakakawea. According to this story, Sakakawea died at the age of 80 in this very area around New Town. This man's name was Esley Fox Thorton, a very interesting man with an interesting story.
We left New Town and biked into some of the largest and longest hills encountered so far. We kicked around the idea of biking on to Williston, a ride of 75 miles, but the hills wore us down, not to mention the temperature was 100 degrees. We decided to stop at Lund's Resort. I called ahead and I got a recording that they were closed for the day. Bad news...but there was another campground nearby so we continue on. We stopped at the other, 3D Campground, but it was out-of-business. We went on to Lund's. This was a very nice campground with a restaurant, but closed for the day. There were two other bikers looking for campground as well, Amanda and Mary, college students riding eastbound across the U.S. We talked it over with each other and a couple of fisherman staying in a cabin and decided to go ahead and set up camp and pay in the morning. We talked for quite a while with the girls and enjoyed comparing notes with them. This campsite had many fewer mosquitoes (until dusk) and much better water.