This cache has given me nothing but trouble! I have had to redo and rehide a couple of times, then someone stole my coffee can container with another cachers travel bug inside. :( I put another container at the same location but now it is a micro with nothing inside but a small log. Please bring your own pen. I rerated this to a 5 because some were complaining about the 'brambles'. Today I when I was there looking for my container, I can now say that there is a path to the location where you should be okay.
In the 1860s, the old stage road ran from Deming, NM, to Colorado City, then the state capital. It crossed Little Fountain Creek just west of this old post [Lincoln Trading Post], and continued to the Charter Oaks Ranch, then a government feeding station and stage stop.
The stage road came to a point east of the Charter Oaks station, and then proceeded down Fountain Creek to the trading post to deliver goods. The stage then went back up the Fountain Creek to Charter Oaks, and on to Colorado City on the west bank of the creek.
Somewhere south of Fountain is the site of a stagecoach robbery, $40,000 in gold is rumored to be buried along Little Fountain Creek under the hot sands and cholla.
Lincoln, who owned the Trading Post, said he encountered men attacking a stage just southeast of the Little Fountain crossing. It is reported that the stage was carrying $40,000 in gold payroll to Colorado City. After the attackers retreated, the coach was searched, but the gold was not found. The attackers had fled up the Little Fountain Creek, apparently taking the gold with them. The attackers were captured a few days later in Canon City, but had no gold. An old-timer thought the gold was buried along the Little Fountain Creek, but it was never found. From an 1800's map I do believe that this location is Little Fountain Creek.
I am going to hide several caches in this area with descriptions of not only of the caches themselves but of Fountain Colorado history. This will be my first in a series. I hope not only that you enjoy the sport of geocaching but love history as I do. Thank You.