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Cruz de la Tierra de Jefes Barranquito y Santana Traditional Cache

Hidden : 6/10/2020
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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You may want to wear disposable gloves, or disinfect the container and what you handle with hand sanitizer. Remember - you are protecting yourself and follow-on cachers by doing this.

When you turn off onto County Road B014, this is a good county/BLM road.  At the 2nd turn, it may not look like it, but the road up to the cache is completely 2-wheel-drive accessible.  If in doubt, it's a short hike up the road.  This is BLM-managed public land (Las Cruces Field Office)

A grand survey of Mescalero Apache Jefe Barranquito's and Jefe Santana's land (which also included the El Paso region and south into Mexico, the Guadalupe Mountains and southeast NM, and as far east as the Lubbock Lake Site, and as far north as the Anton Chico area).

Jefe Barranquito (also known as Palanquito):  most influential chief of the Niit'a-héõde (Sierra Blanca Mescalero) band, which ranged between the Sierra Blanca east toward the Pecos River, probably the most important Mescalero chief in the early 1800s, when he died in 1857, his three sons and/or nephews Santana, Cadete and Roman succeeded him. 

Jefe Santana (also known as Santa Ana, ca. 1810 - †1876):  son and successor of Barranquito, since about 1830 had been a local group leader of great authority of the Sierra Blanca Mescalero band.  Since the death of Barranquito, Santana seemed to have had the most influence within the northern Mescalero bands, but avoided the spotlight and was hardly known by the Euro-Americans.  In his later years he became the most steadfast friend of the Anglos, especially Dr. Blazer, until his death of pneumonia or smallpox.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Ebhaq ebpx whfg nobir gur boivbhf "sbbgerfg"ebpx - nobhg jurer Wrfh'f zvq-pnys jbhyq unir orra.

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)