Best of the West (Virtual Reward) Virtual Cache
Best of the West (Virtual Reward)
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The posted co-ordinates are centered upon the inner courtyard of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, rated the #2 visitor attraction in Oklahoma City on a top trip advisory website, and a repository of some of the finest classic and contemporary Western art in the country. To log this cache, you must first solve a simple puzzle, advance beyond the museum gate, and answer the questions below. You do NOT have to visit the museum or pay an admission fee to log this cache!
The End of the Trail, James Earle Fraser
Canyon Princess, Gerald Balciar
Preface
When I received the e-mail from GC HQ informing me that I was one of 4,000 worldwide recipients of a “Virtual Reward” cache because I'm somehow in the "top 1%" of cache hiders based on the results of their secret algorithm, I must admit that I didn’t take it seriously and assumed that a lot of cachers in this area would probably be getting one too. However, even though I can think think of any number of people who are equally if not more deserving of this Signal honor than me, I soon learned that this was not the case and it gradually dawned on me that I should really try to do something meaningful with it. As I’ve only ever hidden puzzle caches since I first began caching almost twelve years ago, I felt justified in trying to incorporate a puzzle into my Virtual somehow. I looked to see where older Virtuals had been placed and it turns out not too surprisingly that two of the most logged Virtual Caches in Oklahoma City are located at the OKC National Memorial. Now, I had just a day earlier railroaded my daughter and her Chicagoan friend into visiting the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum since, despite its unwieldy name, it's actually a world class museum that attracts many visitors to the city and never ceases to impress. It's also only a few miles down the road from my house and so I felt this would be a perfect location for a Virtual. This being my favorite museum in Oklahoma City, the thought of highlighting some of its best pieces via a puzzle soon crossed my mind and so what I've prepared is a short virtual tour that's less a traditionally difficult JamGuys puzzle and more a sampling of one of the finest collections of Western art in the country. To all my geocaching friends and acquaintances, thanks for your support over the years (and your favorite points!) and I hope that I've done veritable justice to this reward. It's my wish that everyone who logs this cache will enjoy visiting the museum and be as impressed as I was when I first wandered in many years ago with fairly low expectations only to be completely blown away by the exceedingly high quality and incredible beauty of the artwork on display.
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Best of the West
LOGGING REQUIREMENTS
A) Click on the images below, admire the paintings and sculptures so revealed, and obtain a new set of co-ordinates by arranging the artwork in alphabetical order based on the featured artists' SURNAMES.
B) Visit the spot indicated by these co-ordinates and e-mail me the answers to these two questions:
1. What is the FIRST word in the title of this piece?
2. What is the male figure holding in his LEFT hand?
Please do NOT post pictures of the Virtual Cache location or share the answers to the questions with anyone else. Failure to comply will result in your images and/or logs being politely deleted. Thank you.
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Cache Awards
FIRST TO FIND!
nclyga
burg*girl
psteelman1
SPECIAL RECOGNITION AWARD
boydfamily
caliMOOK
The Snowdog
frederickscouter
UKCountryGirl
DeinaOKC
Nicooole
seadog129
UTtoTX
EnderGroot
geo gpa and gma
Sleeping panzer
AEMOKC
FromOK
Team TOGA
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About the Museum
From the Museum's website: The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum is America’s premier institution of Western history, art, and culture. Founded in 1955, the Museum, located in Oklahoma City, collects, preserves, and exhibits an internationally renowned collection of Western art and artifacts while sponsoring dynamic educational programs to stimulate interest in the enduring legacy of the American West. More than 10 million visitors from around the world have sought out this unique museum to gain better understanding of the West: a region and a history that permeates our national culture. The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum features a superb collection of classic and contemporary Western art, including works by Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell, as well as sculptor James Earle Fraser’s magnificent work, The End of the Trail. The exhibition wing houses a turn-of-the-century town and interactive history galleries that focus on the American cowboy, rodeos, Native American culture, Victorian firearms, frontier military, and Western performers. Outside, beautifully landscaped gardens flank the Children’s Cowboy Corral and interactive children’s space. From fine art, pop culture, and firearms to Native American objects, historical cowboy gear, shopping, and dining, the Museum tells America’s story as it unfolds across the West.
Museum Hours:
Monday – Saturday: 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Sunday: Noon – 5:00 p.m.
Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day
For additional information on admission fees and special exhibits, please check out the Museum's website.
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Virtual Reward - 2017/2018
This Virtual Cache is part of a limited release of Virtuals created between August 24, 2017 and August 24, 2018. Only 4,000 cache owners were given the opportunity to hide a Virtual Cache. Learn more about Virtual Rewards on the Geocaching Blog.
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