Temple to the Sun Multi-Cache

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Hidden : 8/4/2002
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
3.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Not your standard multi-cache...you must think before you hike. A very steep jeep trail will lead you to the final location.

To find the cache, go to the coordinates listed. There you will read a clue to the general whereabouts of the final destination. When you get near the final destination, go to NXX XX.353 WXXX XX.560.

You can park about 1/2 mile from the cache, or those of you with decent 4WDs may be able to drive closer.

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Charles Poston is considered one of the 10 most important people in Arizona history. Because of his role in convincing Congress to create the territory of Arizona, he is known as the "Father of Arizona".

Charles Poston arrived in southern Arizona in the 1850s, setting up a bustling mining camp in the abandoned Spanish presidio at Tubac.

Every business venture he tried his hand at--cattle ranching, freighting, mining and farming in places like Tubac and Florence and Tucson--went bust. He made and more quickly lost small fortunes time and again. And he made enemies even more quickly than that, especially during his tenure as Arizona's first delegate to Congress.

Poston was a strong advocate for territorial status. He was in Washington in late 1862 and lobbied lawmakers on Arizona's behalf. It was to Poston that one senator observed, "Oh yes, I have heard of that country - it is just like hell. All it lacks is water and good society."

Appointed Indian agent on the creation of the Territory of Arizona, Poston soon got into some still-unspecified trouble over his bookkeeping methods, whereby federal dollars wound up in his bank account, and off he went to India to bide his time until things cooled down. After a time, Poston returned to Arizona, grew rich, and failed again. All but homeless for the last ten years of his life, he died penniless in a dirt-floor Phoenix shack on January 24, 1902, at the age of 77.

Newsworthy though Poston may have been, he lay forgotten in a pauper's cemetery near South Mountain for several years. Only in 1912 did a group of his friends finally secure the funds to give Poston what he had quietly wished for: a stately tomb overlooking Florence, where he had seen some of his better years as a Land Office registrar.

For more about Charles Poston, visit (visit link)

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Pnpur vf na nzzb pna uvqqra irel jryy arne, ohg abg haqre, n fznyy cnyb ireqr gerr.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)

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