Lost in the Mammoth Cave
Author: Daniel Riley Guernsey
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Published: 1905
Total Pages: 360
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Author: Daniel Riley Guernsey
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Published: 1905
Total Pages: 360
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Steve Kistler
Publisher: Author House
Published: 2011-06-02
Total Pages: 90
ISBN-13: 1463400926
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen sixth grader James Murphy travels with his family to visit Mammoth Cave National Park, he meets a new friend, Shanda. The girl and her uncle, Ranger Matthew, are descendants of the early slave guides at Mammoth Cave. As the young visitors learn about the life of the famous slave and cave guide Stephen Bishop, they hear tales of a longlost treasure deep in the cave. When opportunity knocks, they embark on the adventure of a lifetime!
Author: Melanie Miller-Inman
Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
Published: 2023-01-30
Total Pages: 242
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author's family has, over the years, fallen in love with Mammoth Cave National Park, which is located near Cave City, Kentucky. The love of this wonderful and mysterious place started back in the 1960s with the author's father, J. David Miller, who was there as a teen, trapping deer with the United States government, and spread to the author's mother, Judy, then on to the author and her husband, Tony, in between the years of 1980 and 2004. The author wishes to share with her readers her family's love of an amazing place in southwestern Kentucky.
Author: Colleen O'Connor Olson
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9780939748549
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs you enter the world's longest cave you cannot help but wonder about scary stories. Two centuries of tourists and explorers--some of whom got lost, saw or heard the unexplainable, or just wanted to tell a good tale--cannot leave a cave without stories. Scary Stories of Mammoth Cave is a collection of nineteenth and twentieth century fiction, historical and more recent first hand accounts of unusual experiences by National Park Service employees, cave explorers, and scientists.
Author: Bob Thompson
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2003-03-26
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 1439629366
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMammoth Cave National Park and the surrounding area comprise the world's most extensive cave system. The region is characterized by what geologists call "karst" topography, a landscape dotted with sinkholes and caves. One of America's first tourist attractions, the cave was opened to the public in 1816, and was preceded in popularity only by Niagara Falls. The 200 vintage images found in Images of America: Mammoth Cave and the Kentucky Cave Region represent a look back at over 100 years of photography and tourism at Mammoth Cave and other caves that make up the Kentucky Cave Region. Rare images of early transportation, hotels, cave guides, cave tours, as well as important cave discoveries, and cave explorers such as Floyd Collins are shown throughout the book.
Author: Elizabeth Mitchell
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2019-03-19
Total Pages: 86
ISBN-13: 1504057694
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“A fascinating story.” —LeVar Burton The thrilling adventures of a slave who became known worldwide for his explorations of Mammoth Cave. If you toured Mammoth Cave in Kentucky in the year 1838, you would have been led by candlelight through dark, winding tunnels to the edge of a terrifying bottomless pit. Your guide would have been seventeen-year-old Stephen Bishop, an African American slave who became known around the world for his knowledge of Mammoth Cave. Bishop needed bravery, intelligence, and curiosity to explore the vast cavern. Using only a lantern, rope, and other basic caving equipment, he found a way to cross the bottomless pit and discover many more miles of incredible grottoes and tunnels. For the rest of his life he guided visitors through the cave, showing them how to stoop, bend, and crawl through passageways that were sometimes far from the traditional tour route. Based on the narratives of those who toured the cave with him, Journey to the Bottomless Pit is the first book for young readers ever written about Stephen Bishop. New to this edition: A free teacher’s guide to this book, as well as an interview with current-day Mammoth Cave guide Jerry Bransford, great-great-grandson of Stephen Bishop’s fellow guide, Mat Bransford.
Author: Alexander Clark Bullitt
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Published: 1845
Total Pages: 134
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Harry Moore
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 29
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Horace Carter Hovey
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Published: 1909
Total Pages: 68
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"More than four hundred books, pamphlets, scientific reports and magazine articles have been published by different writers besides innumerable newspaper contributions about Kentucky's great cavern... Yet there is a demand, and there seems to be room, for such a practical, condensed, and up-to-date hand-book as is now offered... Its design is to aid the average visitor as he follows the four regulation routes by which the cave is ordinarily exhibited"--Preface.
Author: David Kem
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2014-06-05
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781312175846
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEighty-two square miles of rolling hills and valleys in south-central Kentucky make up Mammoth Cave National Park, one of four National Park units in the Commonwealth. Our 26th National Park is home to an enormous labyrinth of underground passages. In fact, Mammoth Cave today is understood to be the world's longest known cave system. Over 400 miles of passages have already been discovered, yet Mammoth Cave is not the only cavern in southern Kentucky. More than 300 other cave systems are known to exist within park boundaries, with many more beyond the reach of the national park. The discovery and exploitation of many of these created opportunity and prosperity for many who would seek to compete with the world famous Mammoth Cave. Roughly one hundred years of competition between enterprising cave managers, guides, locals, outsiders, explorers, and those loyal to one cave or another defined an era known as the Kentucky Cave Wars.