GC4537D Three-cornered file.
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: winning @ | Hide Date: 02/12/2013 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N38° 15.185 W105° 05.420 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0

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The first of several historical caches concerning the Indians who lived here. True stories will be discribed for your pleasure.

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Back in the early 1800's the first white settlement was located on Hardscrabble Creek very near this spot. Famous men like, the then teenager Kit Carson, and 20 year old William Bent, frequented the place, as well as William Workman and Samuel Chambers who ordered several eighty gallon stills from Boone's Lick, Missouri. (home of Carson and Chambers) Using a recipe that combined wheat (raised in the Taos Valley) chili, tobacco, river water, old boots, aqua fortes, (hydrochloric acid-solvent) rusty bayonets, soap weed and cactus thorns, they brewed up this concoction to whet the taste of any Indian. They called the brew "Taos Lightening".
Some accounts discribed the effects of swallowing it this way 'it cut like a three-cornered file as it went down." When the supply ran out the famine was only temporary because within an hour all bottles would be refilled. The grade was always the same flavor with the same startling effect on the drinker.
Quickly life out here on the plains was a tad precarious, what with all the tribes coming to give the production business. This area was rich in Native American presence. Mostly Utes lived in these hills, Cheyenne and Arapaho came from the eastern Plains, and Kiowa and Comanche were from south of the Arkansas River. Generations of hatred and grievances all met up out here, a product of doing business with firewater.

I'm told that there are indentations in the ground, somewhere near here, where the old vats still remain.

07/04/2019 By AbvAvg
After a cache in Custer County in this one filled the bill. SL, thanks for the placement.

04/16/2019 By poeanne
I am doing a solo run through southeast Colorado trying to pick up counties and DeLorme squares. This is day two of my three day journey.

This one was nice and easy, just like I like them. All was in good shape, and I replaced as found.

I'm in Colorado for a family ski trip, and I couldn't resist coming a couple of days early and grabbing a few more Colorado counties!! This was the cache I chose for Custer County!!

03/31/2019 By <>
thx for placing a cache at this interesting place. < > is glad to log another smiley, tfth.

03/16/2019 By EJBHGV
Too close to a new county to not take the detour.
Thanks for the quick find.

01/25/2019 By R&B CO
Decided to take a little detour on our way back from Canon City to get a new county. This was great as it was just over the line. Quick find for Custer county. TFTC

09/09/2018 By MGB/FLW
Thanks for the cache and for the history lesson. Life must have been very hard for all concerned.

09/07/2018 By FresnoDancingFool
My computer is having major problems with its keyboard, so I'm going to have to simply log GOOD JOB AND TFTC! today.

09/03/2018 By Trekkie79
Time to say goodbye to the grandkids in California and head back to Kansas City. Picking up a few counties along the way. Day 3 of the return trip. We left Grand Junction, CO, this morning. Got snowed on at Independence Pass, saw Doc Holliday's grave, got the oldest Colorado cache, did lots of twisty roads and saw some beautiful country while picking up 10 more counties. Thanks for all of the caches along the way to make the trip more interesting.

Enjoyed reading the description for this cache. The cache was a quick find and in good shape.
Thanks for the smiley.
Trekkie79

08/25/2018 By Milek78
Out with B0NE on our epic western adventure. We started the trip in Denver and ended in LA picking up highpoints, counties, favorites, virtuals and Earthcaches along the way...Making our way from Pikes Peak down to New Mexico grabbing few caches. Quick find. TFTC

08/25/2018 By B0NE
I think I'm really starting to like these western states..., gotta get outta Jersey! Another adventure with Milek78, starting in Denver and finishing in L.A. This time we came prepared with climbing gear, I want to get on some rock and give the pine trees a rest!

Our Focus:

• State Highpoints
• High Terrain
• Climbing
• Counties
• High Favs
• Oldies

08/19/2018 By crosbyd
Thank you for the fine it was a nice ride

08/19/2018 By mcmwest
We are on our last long weekend caching trip before school starts next week. We are finishing our Wyoming Counties Challenge this trip. Heading home through Colorado.

08/19/2018 By mcmm1
Finished our Wyoming Counties yesterday and heading home to Kansas. Picking up some Colorado Counties we don’t have today. Tftc

08/08/2018 By sarahjanel
Tftc headed to denver