This 50 State Star celebrates
Nebraska - The Good Life
The NEBRASKA Star contains 51 Star caches, of which 50 are puzzles with a wherigo bonus. Each cache page will present Nebraska county trivia.
NEBRASKA FUN FACT
Banner County lies on what was once a tableland sloping away from the Rocky Mountains. Over geologic history, it was eroded by Pumpkin Creek and other watercourses, and much of the county now lies below the original High Plains level.
The posted coordinates are bogus.
Please solve the following to find the coordinates of the cache container.
Bighorn Mountain, or He Sha, is located in Banner County, about 10.8 miles east of the county seat of Harrisburg, in the Pine Ridge escarpment. The peak was named for which animal, that once roamed its flanks?
A) the bighorn Bull 523
B) the Bighorn Moose 673
C) the bighorn sheep 498
N40 57.XXX
When Nebraska became a state in 1867, a single county encompassed the entire Panhandle. Banner County was formed in 1888 from which county?
A) Cheyenne 828
B) Scotts Bluff 729
C) Deuel 687
W096 04.XXX
Sum check: Add the three digits of North to the three digits of West
ANSWER = 1326
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