Little House on the Prairie Traditional Cache
Jedi Cacher: Had a relative check on this one this morning while they were out rockhounding in the area. It is indeed missing. I love the location, but decided to shut it down as it is a ways out from my residence. Not worth the drive back and forth replacing containers as I have already done it once before.
Little House on the Prairie
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This should be a quick grab along Hwy 44 in the Buffalo Gap National Grasslands just south of the Badlands National Park. You can drive through the gate and park within 250ft of the cache. Most of the time the gate is open, but sometimes the gate is closed if nearby ranchers have their cattle grazing on the grasslands.
Here stands an old homestead from the early 1900's on the barren prairie. The outside of the structure is covered in tin and so is the interior. Hard to believe that a family could survive the elements in a small house like this. Also nearby is a well and a corral.
About a half mile to the east of this homestead is the ghost town of Conata. The town of Conata rose off the prairie during the construction of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad from Pierre to Rapid City in 1907. There are the remains of a reservoir there that was used to water the steam engines. The Dust Bowl of the 1930's drove many away, but Conata hung on until the early 1950's, when the railroad left.
There were once 14 structures here, including a school and a church, but it's basically returned to the land. Now all that stands is the little house on the prairie.
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