Around the World Trip: Home at last Mystery Cache
Around the World Trip: Home at last
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This is the Around the World Trip bonus cache.
To find this cache, you must first find the other six caches in the "Around the Word Trip:" series:
Greece (GC3NXF0)
Israel (GC3NXE8)
Russia (GC3NXH2)
India (GC3NXHM)
Thailand (GC3NXJM)
Japan (GC3NXG8)
Each of these caches has a clue to the location of the final cache.
You should be able to complete this series in one trip though it will take some time.
In order to get credit for finding this cache, you must find all six of the previous caches.
All of the other six caches must have a Woo-hoo! from Homer and be logged as found.
In 1875, the Dallas Herald published an article by a former Fort Worth lawyer, Robert E. Cowart, who wrote that the decimation of Fort Worth's population, caused by the economic disaster and hard winter of 1873, had dealt a severe blow to the cattle industry. He further stated that the harm to the cattle industry, combined with the railroad stopping the laying of track 30 miles (48 km) outside of Fort Worth, had caused Fort Worth to become such a drowsy place that he saw a panther(couger) asleep in the street by the courthouse. Although an intended insult, the name Panther City was enthusiastically embraced when in 1876 Fort Worth recovered economically. Many businesses and organizations continue to use Panther in their name. The Fort Worth police have a panther prominently set at the top of their badge.
In 1876, the Texas and Pacific Railway arrived in Fort Worth, causing a boom and transforming the Fort Worth Stockyards into a premier cattle industry in wholesale trade. The arrival of the railroad ushered in an era of astonishing growth for Fort Worth, as migrants from the devastated war-torn South continued to swell the population, and small, community factories and mills yielded to larger businesses. Newly dubbed the "Queen City of the Prairies", Fort Worth supplied a regional market via the growing transportation network.
Fort Worth became the westernmost railhead and a transit point for cattle shipment. With the city's main focus being on cattle and the railroads, local businessman, Louville Niles, formed the Fort Worth Stockyards Company in 1893. Shortly thereafter, the two biggest cattle slaughtering firms at the time, Armour and Swift, both established operations in the new stockyards.
It will be good to be home in Fort Worth again.
Original contents include a Jeep travel bug, a special FTF prize for the first dog to find it, and a baseball autographed by Juan Gonzales. He gave it to me when we installed an air conditioner at his house.
Congrats Fijicat on FTF!!!
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Additional Hints
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