Boothill 015 - John Swain Slaughter Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

afudc: After 9 years at this location I've decided that it is time to archive the boothill geoart. I have picked up the containers for those that I am archiving today.

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Hidden : 3/6/2016
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

A NOTE ABOUT THE CONTAINERS: A few of the containers may be difficult to open. Please do not try to force it open with pliers as this may break the container. I will accept your found log even if you cannot sign the log. Please let me know which ones you had trouble opening.

entrance

Boothill Graveyard, located in Tombstone, Arizona, is the final resting spot for over 250 people. Buried there are children, housewives, painted ladies, outlaws, gamblers, miners, business men and women, blacksmiths, cowboys and those “who died with their boots on”. Many of them are unknown. Most of the occupants died in the early 1880’s.

This cache is part of a Geoart series that is dedicated to the people who are buried in Boothill Graveyard. There are 188 people buried for whom at least some information is known. There is a cache for each of them. There is also a puzzle cache dedicated to the more than 70 people for whom there is no information known.

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This cache is dedicated to John Swain Slaughter who was nearly 100 years old when he died in 1945. He came to Tombstone in 1879 with the John Slaughter family, and spent his life in and around Tombstone.

The cache container is a painted PVC pipe, with a waterproof container inside. Bring a writing instrument and tweezers. Please be sure to put the caps back on, but do not push the PVC cap on too far as this can make it difficult to remove. Containers are generally hidden at the base of a bush. Please rehide them carefully.

This is a hiking series. I expect that all finders will have personally signed the log or at least been present when it was signed on their behalf. The terrain is level. The vegetation ranges from thick to thin, and from benign to thorny. The good news is that I did not see any catclaw. There is also the normal list of Arizona critters out and about, so be careful out there.

The best approach is off of Arizona 82 at N31 41.821 W110 18.285. The road should be passable by all vehicles unless it has rained recently.

The entire Geoart is located on Arizona State Trust Land. A valid ASTL Recreation Permit is required for access. According to ASTL rules, vehicles must stay on existing roads.

After completing your caching day, be sure to visit Boothill Graveyard which is located about 13 miles away in Tombstone. There is no charge to visit it. Also worth a visit is the Fairbank Historic Townsite, which is on your way to Tombstone.

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