GC5ZZ7B Cowboy's Mesa Verde Wild Horses
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: Mick McPhee @ | Hide Date: 07/22/2015 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N37° 21.028 W108° 25.275 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
   

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Cowboy owned a ranch north of Cortez.  He and three of his ranch wrangler buddies were bragging on who was the toughest of the bunch.  After all the brash talk, Cowboy suggested they group all take a ride up to Mesa Verde where there was a herd of mustangs that had never seen a saddle.  The plan was to rope a few and pony them back to the ranch and put on a “ranch rodeo”. 

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 Each wrangler would throw in $25 in the pot to sweeten the bet.  The wrangler who could stay in the saddle the longest was the winner.   The group road out early one morning and spotted a head of mustangs.  They chased the horses into a box canyon and each wrangler roped a nice horse.  After working all day to get the mustangs back to the ranch, the wranglers waited until Saturday for the rodeo.  The rodeo was fun for all including the ranch cooks and the wranglers that came over from nearby ranches to watch.  After four hours of fighting with the mustangs trying to saddle them and jump on for a wild ride, Old Butch was declared the winner and collected the bet.  Butch said, “Cowboy, you lost to a better man”.  Cowboy just smiled and pointed to the mustangs and said, “I would say I won, pointing to the mustangs.  Now I got four good ranch horses for just my $25 bet since you boys work for me”.  He walked off laughing.

The cache is a black camo container with log. Tweezers, forceps or similar tool is helpful. Pullout on Highway 160 

06/22/2019 By rangerhal
Camping in Mesa Verde and needed some caches for today, so took a drive into Cortez. Container was broken so replaced it with similar. Thanks for the hide!

06/22/2019 By RumbleSeats
Thanks for the fun cache and the smiley.

06/20/2019 By El Fartero
We were headed to Cortez to get some good food (we really like the Farmhouse Bistro) and thought we'd stop and do a few caches along the way. Well at least that's what I thought; after this and 1 other find Akiva started squawking that he was hungry. He promised we'd do some on the way home but it was too dark by then.

PS: I like the Cowboy story which reminds me of the tale of Tom Sawyer and the fence.

06/18/2019 By Beutelteufelweibchen
I found this one after a little search in the afternoon, wind is blowing hard, it might want to starrt to rain...
The loogbook looks very bad, it needs some care. I added a log sheet and took the Travel bug.
TFTC,
Beutelteufelweibchen
out: TB

06/02/2019 By RVers18
TFTC SL

10/10/2018 By Omr446
Found with Katy Grace. Tftc!!! :)

10/04/2018 By Deesport
Quick find. Interesting container. Thanks for the hide. Had a great day at Mesa Verde National Park. Awesome place.

09/11/2018 By ErnieGirl
My first find for state! Stopped after visiting Mesa Verde!

09/02/2018 By SaMaLiZo
Found on our way from mesa Verde to Moab - logbook wet and container not water-resistent (lid is broken) -greetings from Germany TFTC SaMaLiZo

08/30/2018 By westsiderocker
After the beautyfull Mesa Verde National Park, we found this cache on the road to Moab. Tftc

07/24/2018 By YamaGypsy
After spending the day at Mesa Verde I asked my parents to stop for this cache on our way back to the hotel. Quick find. Thanks!

07/23/2018 By Lelunka
Thank you for the cache.

07/23/2018 By mip007
TFTC

07/19/2018 By midwestgals
TFTC

07/18/2018 By alokla77
Quick find. TFTC. 2 Austrians on their 3 months trip through the States