Bead-Bigfoot Yellow Brown Small Speckled Donut TB

I maintain records on my trackables. They have the goal to circulate more than five years and to be moved by at least 25 cachers. That is a target rate of five drops per year for five years, or a drop every 73 days. The average drop rate of my trackables in the US is 124 days, in Europe it is 71 days. 4-Oct-23 this trackable had survived for 4.0 years and had been moved by 19 cachers, for an average drop every 77 days, or 4.7 drops per year. Please keep it moving, then drop it in a safe place!

No permission is needed to leave the U.S. While in the U.S., please drop it in a Premium Member only OR a rural cache near a busy trail or road. Do not place it in an urban cache or abandon it at a caching event where there is no security. Transport the bug in the original plastic bag for as long as the bag lasts; the bag keeps the trackable clean and dry, protects the number and prevents tangling with other items. Otherwise, take the trackable anywhere you wish.

This is one of a series of large beads obtained from different places and converted into travel bugs.  They are named for Texas towns with interesting names or histories.

Bigfoot is in northeastern Frio County.  The site was settled about 1865 and during its early years was known as Connally's Store, for Bob Connally.  D. T. Winters established a gin and mill there by 1880.  When James Connally secured a post office for the community in 1883, he named it Bigfoot, for William A. A. (Bigfoot) Wallace, a famous Texas Ranger and resident of the community.  

A Baptist church was organized there in the 1880s, and by 1890 Bigfoot had a general store and an estimated population of twenty-five.  During the 1890s citizens opened a public school, which in 1907 had three teachers and 105 pupils. The community had a population of 146 in 1900, but much of the town's business section burned in 1903.  Bigfoot's population fell to an estimated 100 by the 1930s.  With the development in the 1950s of the Bigfoot oilfield to the south, the community grew, and in 1964 it had a population of 210.  During the 1970s its population diminished again, and was estimated at seventy-five from 1972 to 1992.  In the 1980s Bigfoot still had the post office, two businesses, and three churches.  By 2000 the population had grown again to 304.