Kansas Stasher

Hey. Hi. Is this related to the Butterfield Overland Dispatch? http://www.Waymarking.com/wm/details.aspx?...05-a57b1354e66c Just curious. That waymark is on the Butterfield Overland Mail route established by John Butterfield that ran through Texas to Califonia. The route I'm interested in was the Butterfield Overland Dispatch, founded by David Butterfield that ran from Missouri to Denver thru Kansas. The limestone markers I would like marked run from near Fort Ellsworth, KS to the Kansas/Colorado state line.

I have set up a new group at Waymarking.com to help locate and document the condition of BOD (Butterfield Overland Dispatch) markers in central and western Kansas. If you are interested in Kansas history and preserving it, please help out by joining: BOD Finders. I have over the last two years located Lats/Longs (and some photos, I need to go back to some and get photos) on about 30 of these markers in Far Western Kansas but need some help and the middle and eastern end of the trail.

I have set up a new group to help locate and document the condition of BOD (Butterfield Overland Dispatch) markers in central and western Kansas. If you are interested in Kansas history and preserving it, please help out by joining: BOD Finders

quote:Originally posted by Moun10Bike: I can vouch that Mingo was indeed the 7th cache ever placed, and the oldest currently active one. While dates and other information can now be freely edited, back then you had to email to submit caches and make changes to them, and these dates have not been changed at all since these caches initially appeared. Thanks for the backup on my cache info. I didn't realize it was the oldest, but knew it was close. I was spending a lot of time on the newgroups back then since SA had just been turned off and there was a lot of excitement with gps users. I saw Dave's post on the first cache loved the idea and started looking for a good spot for a 'stash' (the original name before cache, also why my name is the Stasher). I put it near I-70 (since this was the best chance to get visitors in the middle of nowhere) just a few days later . If you look at the photo of my cache, http://img.Groundspeak.com/cache/stash7.jpg you will see the date stamp is even a day earlier (5-10-2000) than listed on the cache info page. (I also just noticed the photo name is stash7.jpg, Mike Teague must have changed that because I just called it stash.jpg.) I think it is great that this game has taken off like it has and it is hard to believe it has been almost 3 years now. I hope that Mingo can keep going for a lot longer. P.S. I set 3 caches between May and July of 2000 and all 3 have survived to present and all in their original containers.

How do you handle the situation when someone posts the travel bug tag number in a log. Do you email them? Email Jeremy? Just get mad? I have this happening currently and would like advice. Thanks.