Highway 200, a black with grey speckled, tar striped road that heads west on your way to Zap ND. The tires of the truck go bump bump as they hit the tar striped lines that fan out across the road like veins in the human body. You turn left to go down a big hill into town. The town sits on the edge of the Bad Lands six miles west of Beulah ND and 6miles east of Golden Valley ND.
As you descend the hill you see what is left of a once booming trailer park that was constructed during the influx of people in the 80's when the power plants in the area were constructed. It is situated on the left and to your right is a long deep valley green with pasture grass and some cattle, which belongs to Leroy Walsh one of the many folks that have been in this area since they were little. Leroy is originally from Dodge ND and was moved their with his mother when he was little. He like the most of the town had worked a lifetime at the now closed mine just south of town, the Indian Head Mine. The......
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