Bead-Langtry Tan Stone TB

This travel bug has two modest goals, to last more than five years and to be moved by 25 cachers.  As of 24-Oct-19 it had been circulating for 5.7 years, but it had been moved by only 15 cachers when it went missing.

Please drop this item in rural OR Premium Member Only caches.  Do not place it in an urban cache or abandon it at a caching event.  Transport the bug in the original plastic bag for as long as the bag lasts; the bag keeps the trackable clean, protects the number and prevents tangling with other items.  Otherwise, take the travel bug anywhere you wish.  No permission is needed to leave the U.S.

Travel bug photos are appreciated.  I will re-post them here, where they can be seen by other cachers.

Large Stone Donut Focal.  While the TB owner lives on the Southern High Plains in the Panhandle of northwest Texas, he has spent considerable time in what many Texans would call Far West Texas.  It remains a favorite part of the state.  Much of it is the Chihuahuan Desert.  In the desert are remotes outposts of civilization and even mountains that rise high enough to harbor junipers and pines.  This travel bug commemorates a favorite place in the region, partly because the history and partly because of memories.

Langtry is an unincorporated community in Val Verde County. The community is notable as the place where "Judge" Roy Bean, the "Law West of the Pecos", had his saloon and practiced a kind of law.  There is a state-run visitor’s center that not long ago celebrated its one millionth visitor.  However, there is far more to the area than Bean and his exploits.
 
The canyons below Langtry as well as those of the Rio Grande and Pecos River have much Indian rock art, pictographs and petroglyphs.  Shelters and shallow caves in the same canyons have revealed human occupation going back many thousands of years. 
 
Langtry was originally established by European Americans in 1882 of the Southern Pacific Railroad as a grading camp called "Eagle Nest". It was later renamed for George Langtry, an engineer and foreman who supervised the immigrant Chinese work crews building the railroad in the area.
 
Roy Bean arrived soon after completion of the railroad and set up a tent saloon on company land. He later built a wooden structure for his saloon, which he called "The Jersey Lilly" after the well-known British stage actress Lillie Langtry. She was a native of the island of Jersey. Bean used the saloon as his headquarters when authorized as a justice of the peace and notary public. He called himself the "Law West of the Pecos". Bean died in 1903.
 
In 1884 the town was authorized a post office. In 1892 it had a general store, a railroad depot, and two saloons.  Most of the town's inhabitants moved from the village of Vinegarroon located at the juncture of the Rio Grande and Pecos Rivers, about eight mile away. The name comes from a local arachnid more commonly known as a "whip scorpion."  It is large and fearsome-looking (see photo) and emits a vinegary smell when disturbed.
 
The writer’s first visit to Langtry was in the company of friend who was introducing him to caving.  The area is rife with extensive limestone caves, some of which can be explored down to the water table.  The then-new Pecos River High Bridge was a treat as well.