This is a replacement of the orginal cache that had been disabled and missing since last fall.
The Platte is the state river of Nebraska. This is cache 25 of 30 caches along stateline road honoring the state symbols of Kansas and Nebraska.
The Platte river is about 310 miles long, drains into the Missouri River near Plattsmouth NE. Over most of it's length it is a muddy, broad, shallow, meandering stream with a swampy bottom and many islands. This is also known as a braided stream. These charachteristics made it too difficult for canoe travel and it was never used as a major transportation route by european american trappers or explorers. It did however play an important role in the westward expansion of the United States providing the route for several major emigrant trails. Including the Oregon, California, Mormon and Bozeman trails. The first europeans to see the Platte were french exploreres and fur trappers in about 1714. They first called it "The Nebraskier". Nebraskier is a transliteration of the name given by the Otoe people meaning flat water.