Virtual Reward - 2017/2018
This Virtual Cache is part of a limited release of Virtuals created between August 24, 2017 and August 24, 2018. Only 4,000 cache owners were given the opportunity to hide a Virtual Cache. Learn more about Virtual Rewards on the Geocaching Blog.
Tucson’s historic train station offers several glimpses of history, including a grisly moment in Arizona lore in which Wyatt Earp gunned down a man he suspected of killing his brother. Few know the gunfight at the OK Corral didn’t end in Tombstone in October 1881. It stretched on for months afterward in a series of revenge killings that left more than a dozen men dead, including Frank Stilwell. Stilwell was a southern Arizona businessman, outlaw and deputy for Cochise County Sheriff Johnny Behan, whose gang of associates famously shot it out with Earp’s gang in Tombstone. In March 1882, five months after the shootout, Earp’s brother, Morgan, was shot and killed in what was assumed to be a revenge killing. Two days later Wyatt, a deputy U.S. Marshall who was convinced Stilwell pulled the trigger on his brother, saw the twice-acquitted gunslinger in Tucson. Earp chased him down the tracks near the Tucson station, killing him with a shotgun. Earp, Doc Holiday and two other men were charged with murder in Pima County, a charge Earp evaded by moving to Colorado. Late in life he admitted the killing, offering a hand-drawn sketch explaining what happened. The killing is marked by a plaque and statue of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday on the platform at the train station.
Although the posted coordinates will get you very close, this spot is a little too close to the tracks according to geocaching guidelines. So please be careful of how you obtain your answers and avoid:
That being said, please e-mail your answers to the C.O. Do not leave answers on the cache page. Answer to question 1. can be found at or very near ground zero. The questions are as follows:
1. In what year was the original station built?
2. What is the date that Frank Stilwell was shot and killed?
3.Who are the two men in the statue?
4.What year was this statue placed here?
There is also a restaurant and museum on the property. I'm not sure of the hours though
AND CONGRATULATIONS TO:
Cherokee Sarah
FOR MAKING "Blood on the Tracks"
YOUR 20,000th FIND!!!!