A Hermits Home Traditional Geocache
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Approximately .3 of a mile from the main road.
BOB STINSON
WEST MILLARD COUNTY’S HERMIT
“Bob” Robert Seth Stinson was born in Marion, Iowa, on April 21, 1880. He graduated from the University of Ohio with a degree in chemistry and Physics and was considered to be very intelligent man by those who knew him. Bob joined the army on May 8,1918, was wounded in battle and was discharged a year after his enlistment for “shell shock”. Shortly after that, he hitchhicked to Delta,Utah. According to Delta resident Ray Spor, he was a rather strange sight. He wore leggings like the ones worn by World War I, and looked very sickly.
Bob came to Delta to get away from the world and to find peace. He found work with the state highway department removing rocks from old Highway 6/50 which ran through Marjum Pass(flash floods strewed rocks along the highway). In the spring of 1920, he took up residence in Marjum Pass. Bob made himself a small one room cabin by utilizing a natural cave which provided three walls and a ceiling. Bob neatly crafted a front wall which included a door and window by using flat rocks that fit tightly together. A hollow rock served as his bed, water was obtained from a spring located higher up the gully from his cabin. Life in Marjum Pass must have agreed with Bob for his health and vigor seemed to quickly return.
During the 25 years that Bob occupied his home in Marjum Pass, he made several improvements and made many friends. Two or three miles west of his cabin he cultivated a garden on the east slope of Tule Valley. He dug a well and buried two steel barrels which functioned as a cistern for storing water for his garden. Bob also had a couple of pigs around his cabin. He got grain from the ranchers in the area for them. Bob also trapped coyotes for a bounty of 6 dollars a head.
The “improvements” which made Bob and his cabin famous was his brewery. Although considered a hermit, Bob had frequent visitors who liked to sample his home brewed beer. Bob traded his brew for groceries, clothes and other items to make life more comfortable at the pass.
While living in his cabin, Bob was credited with saving the lives of people who sometimes got caught in a flash flood that ran as high as 10-12 feet deep. In 1945 Bob moved to Delta, Utah.
The legendary life ended on November 23, 1960 when Bob Stinson passed away from bronchial pneumonia. His body was cremated and the ashes spread over the area he loved in Marjum Pass.
To get to this cache you will need to take old highway 6/50 over Marjum Pass. The cache is located to the north of the road.
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