Love Bug-Tee Pee City Small Pink Acrylic
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Owner:
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shellbadger
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Released:
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Wednesday, June 4, 2014
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Origin:
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Texas, United States
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Unknown Location
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This trackable has the goal to circulate more than five years and to be moved by at least 25 cachers. That is a rate of five drops per year for five years, or a drop every 73 days. As of 18-Nov-20 it had survived for 6.4 years and had been moved by 9 cachers, for an average release every 260 days.
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his is one of a series of heart-shaped items obtained from different places and converted into travel bugs. They are named either for the places of their origin or for Texas Panhandle-South Plains towns with interesting names or histories.
Tee Pee City is near the confluence of Tee Pee Creek and the Middle Pease River in eastern Motley County. It began in 1875 as a trading post serving buffalo hunters and surveying parties. The site, originally a Comanche campground, derived its name from the numerous teepee poles found up and down the creek by early settlers.
Charles Rath and Lee Reynolds moved wagons, cattle, mules, and dance-hall equipment from Dodge City to establish the post but soon moved on to the Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos River, leaving their hide-dealer representatives Armstrong and Sharp in charge. Until his death in 1884 Isaac Armstrong served as proprietor of the two-room picket building, which had a hotel in one room and a saloon complete with dance-hall girls in the other.
By 1878 the buffalo herds, victims of the Sharps buffalo rifle, were gone from the area and the buffalo hunters with them. The families of R. V. Fields and A. B. Cooper settled in Tee Pee City in 1879. Cooper freighted supplies from Dallas and ran the general store, first from a dugout and later from a one-room rock house. The Tee Pee City school, one of the first schools in the area, met from 1895 until 1902, by which time most of the settlers, save for the Cooper family, had left.
The wide-open settlement, scene of shoot-outs, drunken brawls, and robberies, often warranted the attention of George W. Arrington's group of Texas Rangers based at Camp Roberts in Blanco Canyon. The management of the Matador Land and Cattle Company considered Tee Pee City such a bad influence that the settlement was declared off-limits to its cowboys, and when the opportunity arose in 1904, the ranch bought the land and closed Tee Pee City down. There is a historical marker at the site.
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K-Romers retrieved it from HMD-0000 Heart of the Mojave Desert Cache Series
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Rich & Lola placed it in HMD-0000 Heart of the Mojave Desert Cache Series
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California
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Rich & Lola retrieved it from Texas UFO Crew Descends on Vegas, Baby!
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Nevada
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This one didn't get picked up at last nights event, so we are picking it back up. Heading to California, will try to find a good place for it.
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cachestacker discovered it
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Discovered at the "Texas UFO Crew Descends on Vegas, Baby" event. Thanks for the discovery.
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Rich & Lola took it to CLAPS Cachin' on the Bayou Post-Mega Paddle Event
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Rich & Lola took it to Geocoinfest 2014: Houston, Texas
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