Love Bug-Tascosa Opaque Large Acrylic

Days

This trackable has the modest 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.  As of 6-May-20 it had survived for 333 days and had been moved by 2 cachers.

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, protects the number and prevents tangling with other items.  Otherwise, take the trackable anywhere you wish.

Trackable photos are appreciated and will be re-posted here.

This 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.  

Tascosa was once the capital of ten Texas counties and a rival of Dodge City, but it is now a Ghost Town. It is located in Oldham County.  The town grew up around a local crossing place on the Canadian River where cowboys would cross the river on their way to the Dodge City railhead and cattle markets.  It was frequented by such famous Old West characters as Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett. Tascoasa was also the site of a Boot Hill cemetery.

The town's post office opened on June 24, 1878.  On 21 March 1886 it became the site of the famous Tascosa Gunfight in which four people died.  When the hoped-for railroad was built 50 miles north of town, it made Tascosa irrelevant to the beef industry.  By the 1930s, the town was almost deserted.  In 1938, Cal Farley's Boys Ranch was built on the site (where one can get some really good ice cream). The old courthouse (now a museum) and the 1889 schoolhouse are the only buildings from the old town to survive into the 21st Century.   Tascosa is mentioned is several of the Sackett Series of Western novels by Louis Lamour.