Along a rural Kansas Road you will find a small monument which has
been erected as a marker near the location of a Dugout once owned
by Boston Corbett.
Boston Corbett was a Army Sergeant who was with a detachment of
soldiers searching for John Wilkes Booth. When they caught up with
Booth, Corbett was credited and later discharged from the Army for
the shot that killed Booth. It seems that Corbett made a
spectacular shot through a crack in some barn siding, however
Corbett was discharged for failing to follow orders in the
shooting.
After being discharged Corbett homesteaded in Kansas and made
this dugout his home for awhile. The eccentric man had a run in
with the local sheriff (after showing some local children the
business end of his pistol) and through some sypathetic friends he
landed a job at the state capital.
After an incident where he displayed his 38 at the capital he
was sent to the state insane asylum, which he quickly escaped from.
He made his way to friends house and was last seen jumping a train.
There is no record of what happened to him after that.
To claim credit for finding this virtual cache go to the
location and find what year the Boy Scouts Erected the marker &
take a photo of you with your GPS somewhere at the site.
E-mail me the year before logging your find at
mailto:rsoldan@cox.net then when logging your find upload your
photo. Logs missing the required photo will be deleted!