Travel Bug Dog Tag Remember Katherine

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Released:
Saturday, August 28, 2004
Origin:
Idaho, United States
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This travel bug has a two-part mission. First, we would like it to be placed in a cache near Dumfries, Scotland. Second, we would like it to be placed in a cache in Silver City, Idaho. Please send pictures of the bug's journey, especially of Dumfries. I've never seen the land of my roots.

About This Item

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My great-great grandmother, Katherine Pryor Pierce was born in Dumfries Scotland. At the age of 18, she left Scotland and sailed to America, landing in New York. She then sailed around the horn of South America to San Francisco, where she married John Bradford Pierce. John and Katherine were genuine Idaho pioneers, being among the residents when Idaho became a state in 1890. They mined in both Idaho City and Silver City before settling on a farm in the Boise valley.

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Discovered It 8/8/2011 Apollo II discovered it   Visit Log

😌 -> www -> 😎 - thx!
Discovered It 11/17/2009 Gouden Bertje discovered it   Visit Log

discovered on the net.
Dropped Off 4/7/2008 Black trailer placed it in Fantastic Place- Regular cache Southern Scotland, United Kingdom - 216.17 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 3/2/2008 Black trailer retrieved it from Seek the dead Scotsman North West England, United Kingdom   Visit Log

Retrieved this bug from the wild and windy Winter Hill from near Scotsmans stump a memorial to a foul deed - murdered Scottish traveller, still a long way from Scotland though!
This spot on Winter Hill is remembering another sad event – it is 50 years this week that an aircraft crash landed at this spot. Here is a local news report:

MOVING service at the windswept summit of Winter Hill was held yesterday to remember the 35 people killed in a plane crash there 50 years ago.
The Manchester-bound Silver City Airways flight from the Isle of Man crashed on the moors above Horwich at 9.45am on February 27, 1958.
Only seven people survived the crash. They were pulled from the burning wreckage of the Bristol 170 Freighter when it hit the hillside, just 50ft below the summit, not far from the TV mast, in atrociRetrieved this bug from the wild and windy Winter Hill from near Scotsmans stump a memorial to a foul deed - murdered Scottish traveller, still a long way from Scotland though!
This spot on Winter Hill is remembering another sad event – it is 50 years this week that an aircraft crash landed at this spot. Here is a local news report:
MOVING service at the windswept summit of Winter Hill was held yesterday to remember the 35 people killed in a plane crash there 50 years ago.
The Manchester-bound Silver City Airways flight from the Isle of Man crashed on the moors above Horwich at 9.45am on February 27, 1958.
Only seven people survived the crash. They were pulled from the burning wreckage of the Bristol 170 Freighter when it hit the hillside, just 50ft below the summit, not far from the TV mast, in atrocious weather conditions following a navigational error.
The passengers were motor industry traders from the Isle of Man, travelling to the Exide Battery factory at Clifton Junction.

We are off to Scotland at the beginning of April for a short break – we will overshoot Dumfries but the bug will be dropped in the Highlands.
Best regards
Black Trailer and wife
Dropped Off 2/10/2008 BeetleDuo placed it in Seek the dead Scotsman North West England, United Kingdom - 35.96 miles  Visit Log

Sorry for keeping this a little while but hopefully you are a few miles nearer Scotland. This cache seemed an interesting one to add to your journey. Have a look at http://www.bolton.org.uk/winterhill.html and read the 2 sections about the Scotchman's Stump - a sad connection for you! Happy onward journey.

[This entry was edited by BeetleDuo on Sunday, February 10, 2008 at 2:54:27 PM.]

  • Up the hill This is the journey to the mast and the cache - phew!
  • At the cache Looking back at the mast just before going in the box - it's 1015feet hight so I couldn't get it all in!
  • To Scotland On a clear day you can almost see the Scottish border - too misty today but if you look really hard...
Retrieve It from a Cache 1/12/2008 BeetleDuo retrieved it from Boulderdash United Kingdom   Visit Log

We had had a break from caching for almost 6 months (it's been very strange) but time has been against us of late. A New Year so we thought we would get ourselves back "in the saddle". Spotted some caches that were not too far away and noticed this one that had your TB so we made plans to get it moving in 2008. I see things have gone a bit slow since comeing over from Ireland (and from the famous Europe' First cache - we did this last year, great place!). Hopefully things will pick up steam as you head further north to Cumbria and then onwards to Scotland.

  • The view from Boulderdash I cannot believe that you have not had one photo of your journey so here is one to set the scene.
Dropped Off 1/6/2008 M1EYO placed it in Boulderdash United Kingdom - 20.77 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 1/5/2008 M1EYO retrieved it from l33t Cache Yorkshire, United Kingdom   Visit Log

Time to move on.
Dropped Off 9/1/2007 bleaklow placed it in l33t Cache Yorkshire, United Kingdom - 179.3 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 8/26/2007 bleaklow retrieved it from Europe's First Leinster, Ireland   Visit Log

Amazingly I was in Idaho a few weeks ago journeying west from the Grand Teton to Mount Rainier - great memories. Picked this one up on a day trip across the Irish Sea from Wales to Ireland. Will take home to northern England and try and get it on it's way to Dumfries. I wish it well.
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