Iron Horse Traditional Cache
GeoCrater: I am regretfully archiving this cache since there's been no response from nor action by the cache owner within the time frame requested in the last reviewer note.
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A waterproof match container placed near the Helena Train Depot.
June 12, 1883, on the eve of the Northern Pacific Railroad steaming westward into the Prickly Pear Valley, and thus connecting Helena with the rest of the eastern United States, a reporter for the Daily Herald summed up the general sentiment: "We all long for statehood, but of the two, rail connection is the greatest blessing."
The railroad was considered the greatest American technological feat of the 19th century. It served as a vital link for trade, commerce and travel that joined the eastern and western halves of the United States. The transcontinental railroad quickly ended the romantic, yet far slower and more hazardous, Pony Express and stagecoach lines that had preceded it. The subsequent march of "Manifest Destiny" and proliferation of the so-called "Iron Horse" across Native American land greatly accelerated the demise of Great Plains Indian culture.
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