GC3MQQV Traditional Cache Dr. W. S. Catterson
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro Micro | Difficulty: 2 out of 5 | Terrain: 1.5 out of 5
By: Pueblo Pioneers @ | Hide Date: 06/17/2012 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N38° 15.797 W104° 35.712 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
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One of a series of caches recognizing figures from Pueblo's early days.

Dr. W. S. Catterson was one of the founders of a new town of Pueblo in 1860 after the discovery of gold in the Colorado mountains lured many more people to the area. He built a cabin on Second Street near Santa Fe and was the first doctor to settle in the new town. In 1874 he died in Kansas City from an overdose of medicine, presumed to be morphine.


Most of the information to create this series came from the following three books: Pueblo, an Illustrated History by Eleanor Fry & Ione Miller. 2001. Heritage Media Corp. Carlsbad, CA Pueblo, a Pictorial History by Joanne West Dodds. 1982. The Donning Company/Publishers. Norfolk, VA They All Came to Pueblo: a Social History by Joanne West Dodds. 1994. The Donning Company/Publishers. Virginia Beach, VA
Supplemented by various internet sources.

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10 Logs: Found it 9  Owner Maintenance 1  

Found it 04/06/2019 By Triciayab1
Nice hide. Tjpooh

Found it 02/04/2019 By motwenty
Tftf sl left some swag

Found it 10/21/2018 By zeke2014
9in a row

Found it 10/21/2018 By ROYALALLI
Easy

Found it 10/20/2018 By christinesredroses
Christine, Hamilton and Leandro

Found it 09/17/2017 By DustyKat
We parked at Runyon lake and started up the various trails. TFTC

Found it 08/12/2017 By gnome_goddess
Geocaching this morning with P_trailblaz3r the geodog and grabbed a few along the trail. This was the second cache I found on the ground and re-hid. Was it storming on this side of town recently? Tftc.

Owner Maintenance 06/04/2017 By NanCycle
Replaced the log.

Found it 05/16/2017 By tamiuron
Thanks, NanCycle! I really appreciate the history lessons associated with all the caches I found today. It was great walking along the bike trail for most of them. We traveled down to Pueblo today. My aunt (two years older than me) is moving from Marquette, Michigan to Boulder to be closer to her daughter and the grandchild. Her older brother lives in Raton, New Mexico, so I drove her down to Pueblo for the hand off of my passenger. While having lunch together in Pueblo, I was subjected to stories of when Uncle George baby sat me while my dad was in college classes in Marquette and my mom was working. I had a couple hours to geocache in Pueblo before heading back to Arvada.
--tamiuron, sign nano logs TRON

Found it 03/12/2017 By Colorado 59'er
Out for a couple of quickies today. TFTC/SL