Look closely and you will see the history of the Milk River area before you in great detail. The Sweetgrass hills, to the south of town, are the backdrop of everything that has happened here.
By the number of fossils and dinosaur bones in this area, we can tell that dinosaurs roamed the ancient inland sea with great palms and ferns growing along the shores.
The first people to travel through this area were the First Nations people following the buffalo, then early fur traders from the Hudson Bay Company and the Northwest Trading Company and then the North West Mounted Police. Cattle herds took over the grazing from the buffalo on the wide expanses of open prairie as ranching became a way of life. The land was gradually homesteaded by families who braved many hardships to make a living in this area. Harsh winters, droughts and floods all took a toll on the settlers. Many of the local people are descendants of those early settlers.
These beautiful, dimensional murals were created by Jim Marshall of Medicine Hat. Once the design has been determined, raw (unfired clay) bricks are stacked to the size of the mural. The design, with all its detail, is then carved into the soft clay bricks. The bricks are numbered as they are moved into the kiln for firing. Once fired, the bricks are moved to their final location, mortar is used to hold the bricks together and then the mortar is also carved to create the surface of the design.
TO LOCATE part 2 of the CACHE:
a) count the number of bricks with names on them on the left side of the Dinosaur panel. Put that number into .0_ _ Add it to N 49 09.541 to get the new coordinates
b) count the total number of bricks with names on them on both the left and right sides of the dinosaur panel and put that number into .0_ _ . Subtract that number from these coordinates W 112 04.590. You now have the location of the cache with the log book.