Soldier's Crossing Traditional Cache
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This cache is in San Juan County Utah just off Highway 95. Watch for the historical marker road sign and drive in. This is a quick grab cache.
This cache is filled with lots of goodies. Including a ready to place micro cache, batteries, hat, tp, toy car, noisemaker, kazoo, keychain, and more.
The history of this marker is:
Soldier Crossing
Nearly two years after starting his Eagle project, Logan Bradford, of Troop 311 in Blanding, finally finished it last week.
Bradford’s project was ambitious. He set about providing a permanent marker for the grave of two men killed in a battle between the U. S. Calvary and a band of Utes and Piutes on July 15, 1884. Calvary Scout Joseph Wormington and cowboy volunteer James “Rowdy” Higgins were part of a posse that chased the Indians 75 miles from the round-up grounds at Verdure, after the Indians stole 150 head of horses. The posse consisted of cattlemen and cavalry soldiers from the Sixth Calvary ‘F’ Troop out of Ft. Lewis, Colorado. On July 15, the Utes and Piutes led the posse into an ambush at a place called Piute Pass. Wormington and Higgins volunteered to scout the pass for the posse and were killed in the process.
Prospectors Cass Hite and Joe “Duckett found their bodies two months later, moved the bodies a few miles from Piute Pass and buried them at a place that became known as Soldier Crossing. The site is located at Mile Post 66.5 on Highway 95, just a few miles past Fry Canyon. Over the years the gravesite has been marked in a number of ways, until recently when Logan Bradford decided the two needed a permanent marker.
[The project was to] remove the old grave marker, install a new one and place a new sign that explained how Wormington and Higgins came to be buried there. The sign explains to readers that,”The Utes and Piutes were watching the U.S. Government absorb their homelands. They fought back in the only way they knew how. The Soldier gave his life in the service of his country. The cowboy did the tough job he was paid to do and a little more. All of them played out their heroic roles in this epoch struggle to settle the old west.”
Blue Mountain Panorama Newspaper, September 19, 2007, written by Neil Joslin.
A highway historical marker is planned to be placed on Highway 95 by the Utah Department of Transportation to advise motorists about the gravesite. The official dedication of the grave markers was held on Saturday, November 10, 2007.
To find the cache, look in the boulders and come from the west. Please watch for fragile soil.
As always, have fun in San Juan County. Remember to always have plenty of water no matter where you go.
Additional Hints
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