Clara Clemens Traditional Cache

This geocache was placed as part of the 2017 Discover Nature – Women Outdoor Skills Workshop.  MDC partnered with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Missouri State Highway Patrol, and Whitetails Unlimited to offer a safe and friendly environment where women could experience hands-on outdoor skills training at the beginner level.

This geocache is named after Clara Clemens, the daughter of famous Missourian, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens). "Clara Langhorne Clemens Samossoud, formerly Clara Langhorne Clemens Gabrilowitsch (June 8, 1874 – November 19, 1962), was the daughter of Samuel Clemens, who wrote as Mark Twain. She was a contralto concert singer and, as her father's only surviving child, managed his estate and guarded his legacy after his death. She was married twice—first to Ossip Gabrilowitsch, then (after Gabrilowitsch's death) to Jacques Samossoud. She wrote biographies of Gabrilowitsch and of her father. In her later life she became a Christian Scientist." Quoted text can be found on Clara Clemens' Wikipedia page.