Three-cornered file. Traditional Cache
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The first of several historical caches concerning the Indians who lived here. True stories will be discribed for your pleasure.
Back in the early 1800's the first white settlement was located on Hardscrabble Creek very near this spot. Famous men like, the then teenager Kit Carson, and 20 year old William Bent, frequented the place, as well as William Workman and Samuel Chambers who ordered several eighty gallon stills from Boone's Lick, Missouri. (home of Carson and Chambers) Using a recipe that combined wheat (raised in the Taos Valley) chili, tobacco, river water, old boots, aqua fortes, (hydrochloric acid-solvent) rusty bayonets, soap weed and cactus thorns, they brewed up this concoction to whet the taste of any Indian. They called the brew "Taos Lightening".
Some accounts discribed the effects of swallowing it this way 'it cut like a three-cornered file as it went down." When the supply ran out the famine was only temporary because within an hour all bottles would be refilled. The grade was always the same flavor with the same startling effect on the drinker.
Quickly life out here on the plains was a tad precarious, what with all the tribes coming to give the production business. This area was rich in Native American presence. Mostly Utes lived in these hills, Cheyenne and Arapaho came from the eastern Plains, and Kiowa and Comanche were from south of the Arkansas River. Generations of hatred and grievances all met up out here, a product of doing business with firewater.
I'm told that there are indentations in the ground, somewhere near here, where the old vats still remain.
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