[Citation Needed] #13: Maudlin Pete's Saloon Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 4/28/2012
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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#13 in a series of fact-filled caches filled with facts!

Congrats to GanderGoose on their 1,000th find!

In 1877 a wave of settlers flocked into the newly formed state of Colorado.

One of these settlers was Scottish immigrant Peter O'Clanna'nough. Peter settled in a home near this location.
He founded a series businesses to serve the local mining and ranching population.

His first venture involved in the import of kilts and sporrans, the market for which he vastly over-estimated. This business failed.

His subsequent businesses fared no better: "Pete's Hand-Sewn Eye Patches (While U Wait)" and "O'Clanna'nough's Mono-grammed Shoe-Laces" both shut down almost immediately. His business selling lobster bibs to ranchers failed so quickly he never even got a chance to name it.

The financial and emotional toll weighed heavily on Peter. He took to the drink, eventually so besotted by noon that he couldn't even stand.

One night nearby miners heard the drunken, sobbing song filtering from his cabin. They joined him, drinking and singing until daylight.

Peter never got over the trauma of his previous failures in life, but he capitalized on them in the only way he could: the next day he erected a saloon on this spot and named it "Maudlin Pete's Saloon". Miners, rustlers, cattlemen... they all came for a pint, a song, and a good cry.

Maudlin Pete's Saloon, ca. 1881
The saloon grew in size and in fame, attracting business from as far away as Cincinnati. Peter grew wealthy.

In the fall of 1883, Peter O'Clanna'nough sold the saloon and invested his entire savings in a business selling mustache weaves for fine gentlemen. The venture failed so quickly that he returned to Scotland in disgrace.

Peter O'Clanna'nough had bad business sense and terrible taste

You're looking for an ammo container with lots of room for junk. Initial contents:
* log
* pen
* bubble soap
* squirt gun
* Play-doh
* Flarp Putty (evidently "Flarp" is more marketable that "fart", but let's call it what it is; it's a toy you squish and it farts)
* 3 skinny glow sticks
* 1 geocaching glow stick

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Congratulations to Huskersden, FTF!

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