Douglas #23 - Conrad Moschel Traditional Cache
Hidden : 5/9/2007
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This is number twenty-two in a series of historical points within Douglas County Colorado.



This is the grave of Conrad Moschel.

Conrad Moschel was serving in Company M of the Colorado Cavalry who were stationed at California Ranch near Franktown.

In August of 1864 he was detailed with Lawrence Welty, George Engl, and Casper Courts to recover Engl's valuable shorthorn herd from the Lake Gulch area.

While gathering the herd the men were attacked by about thirty Indians. Everyone survived the attack and made it safely back to California Ranch except Conrad Moschel. His body was found about a week later halfway up the bluffs opposite Engl's Ranch. Circling magpies led the search party to it. He had been shot in the back with an arrow, a gunshot wound to the head and had been scalped.

He was buried where he was found and a carved memorial is in the rock cliff above the grave. A granite tombstone was later added to the head of the grave.

This among other killings is what prompted Colonel Chivington's infamous massacre of Indians at Sand Creek in the same year.

You can park along the road near the grave. The grave is on private property but the container isn't.

Thanks Geocaching Colorado for the Geocache of the Month Award, as the second series to win!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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