Osagin' # 2 - Dirty Laundry Traditional Cache
pawneetrader: Thanks to BliminOnion I have been informed that this building caught fire and appears to be destined for the wreckers ball (or bulldozer as the case may be). Will have to put this one in the Archive as it may be awhile before I get up there to replace it.
Osagin' # 2 - Dirty Laundry
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Another park and grab.
This is one of a baker’s dozen of caches placed in Osage County, the largest county in Oklahoma. Osage County, particularly the western part, has been a black hole to geocachers. I have tried to remedy that with this effort. All portions of "The Osage" are shown, from its lush river bottoms through the hardscrabble rocky hills to the spectacular grass prairie. The caches are meant to be done in numerical order that you may end within 10 miles from whence you began. You can run the sequence forward or in reverse, starting at any convenient point. Osage County is quite large and in many sections rather devoid of civilization, so it might be advisable to start with at least half a day to spend and a reasonably full gas tank The caches vary in size and I have tried to put them in places of interest, both historical, scenic, and/or informational.
The town in which this cache is placed has a rather infamous history. It was the subject of an FBI investigation which prompted the movie, “The FBI Story,” a film based on true facts. In short, when the Osage Tribe became wealthy from the oil found on their land it seemed that there was a sudden upsurge of “accidental” deaths among the Indians. Even stranger was the fact that most of these same Indians had bequeathed their headrights to their government appointed trustees or their white spouses. The FBI was alerted and came to investigate, their contingency even including an undercover agent, an Indian woman, who I think was also subsequently killed. Even as recently as 10 years ago when a local student re-opened the issue for her thesis in Native American History she was advised that might not be a good idea. Her brother (or maybe cousin) was then working for the FBI and was assisting in gathering information from the FBI files. They were both stonewalled by their families and other residents of the town to the point of feeling physically threatened.
The cache is placed near an eating place nearly as old as the town and still quite popular among residents of both Osage and Pawnee Counties.
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