We looked all over fer ar brothr and now we found him! We want to
shar ar famly story wit him but caint writ too good so we asked ms
Patarson the skool kid teachr to writ it fer us. She's real purdy
too!
It was the mid 1800's. 1848 to be exact. Wisconsin had no more
become a state and her resources were in high demand. The Eastern
united states was growing faster than the surrounding forests could
support and so men set out for the "wild west" in search of
timber.
They came by wagon, by horse, by boat, and some even walked. But
two great men came by a way that no other man could ever come. One
of them, you all know and have read or heard great stories about.
The other, few have ever heard of. These two men were equals in
every way, both having swam across Lake Superior from Canada to
come to Wisconsin yet only one man is remembered while the other
is, well, forgotten until now!
The two men I speak of are none other than Paul Bunyan and Zoma
Amuz!!!
Both men were great choppers, felling tree after tree with a single
blow but one was more suited for the task than the other. You see,
Paul Bunyan quickly learned of his own notoriety and succumbed to
the fan fair while Zoma Amuz stayed true to the task at hand. Zoma
Amuz simply wanted to do what he was destined to do and not be
bothered by the public. And in that lies his obscurity.
Paul went on to work in other logging camps and eventually settled
in the Brainerd, MN area but Zoma Amuz stayed where he felt most at
home. That home, for him, Hayward, WIsconsin!
Amuz settled on a small piece of land now known as Mosquito Brook
Flowage. A place he'd himself named so many years ago. When asked
by loggers where he had his cabin, he simply stated, " at the place
where it gets so hot that even the mosquitos go for a swim".
El Bastardo did some research and didcovered that local geocaching
legend Zuma ia a direct descendant of a local logger named Zama.
Following that trail, I've discovered that Zama is a direct
descendant of Zoma Amuz. Once again proving that while we all
thought Zuma was a very gifted geocacher (and he is) he's naturally
born to be able to "find them all!"
Zoma Amuz wanted to insure that his descendants had something to
always remember him by so he hid things in the woods in areas he
knew his offspring would go. Today, these things are called
geocaches but back in the mid 1800's, they were called, "things in
the woods in areas my offspring will go".
Sos we found gret gret gret gret gret gret grandaddys spots in the
woods. Now we wants ar brothr to find em two! Sew we asked ms
Paterson to help us and she got one of dem GPs thingys and told us
we can find em anytime we want two! She couldnat help us vey much
but she helpd us two daze and we ar glad becus shez reel purdy!
The first day she helpd us we found the Nort spots and she
called dem the nort coords and thems the ones dat help you get to
the final, best spot of ol' Zoma.
The secund day she helpd us and them was the wet cords that help
you find the best spot of ol Zoma.
We hope ar brothr can find us the way we found him! Ol Zoma was
a good un!
Ya so, HUH? Oh,Yea! This is Zema here. Anaway, come to Hayward
and luk fer, find, and grab Zuma's family jewls! If ya caint find
'em all, just come up and grab a pare!
Yer gona need to find Zumas left and right jewls to find this
here one.
"Hey there! This is Zima. We almost forgot to tell ya that there is
a picture camera in the cache so take your picture so we can add it
to out family picture book
So to find the ZFJ-R caches ya gotta find the GO WEST caches to
get the North coords and to find the ZFJ-L caches to get the UP
NORT Caches to get the West Coords.
Ya,we know that this don't make much cents, but Zema did it that
way. Papa Zama always says the Zema is a few samiches short of a
picnic but he aint got no good smarts sometimes.
Oh! One other thing, There is a right way and get to the caches and
the Stoogetts way. Don't be a Stoogett!
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