Potts
Caution: Keep an eye out for snakes while searching for the cache!
The Corp of Discovery made history over 200 years ago with their four year expedition to the Pacific ocean. We hear a lot about Captain's Lewis and Clark, but the Corp had some lesser known members. This cache is in honor of one of the privates that made the journey.
Private John Potts was a German immigrant and a miller by trade. He joined the U.S. Army in 1800 and was serving in Tennessee when ordered to join the exploring party in November 1803. After the expedition, he became a member of Manuel Lisa’s fur trading venture in the upper Missouri River country. He was killed by Blackfeet Indians near the Three Forks in the same ambush that John Colter narrowly managed to escape.
Potts is named in a few journal entries, including:
Lewis “permitted Sergt. Gass, McNeal and several others who had not yet seen the falls [of the Missouri] to visit them.” Then, on July 15, Lewis comments on excess baggage carried by some of the men: “We find it extreemly difficult to keep the baggage of many of our men within reasonable bounds; they will be adding bulky articles of but little use or value to them....in order to lighten the burthen of the canoes I continued my walk all the evening and took our only invallids Potts and LaPage with me.” On July 20, Lewis wrote, “through the valley which we entered early this morning a large creek flows from the mountains and discharges itself into the river behind an island on Stard. side...this we called Pott’s Creek after John Potts one of our party.”
There is a large amount of information available about the Corp of Discovery, the above information was copied and pasted from: http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark
The Cache: The camouflaged tube should be a fairly quick find in this area, though may prove much tougher in winter. The road is not real busy, but please park accordingly. Respect the private property, there is no need to cross a fence.
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