Mummy of the Mammoth Cave
Author: Reuben T. Durrett Collection on Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley (University of Chicago. Library)
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Published: 1800
Total Pages: 12
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Author: Reuben T. Durrett Collection on Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley (University of Chicago. Library)
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Published: 1800
Total Pages: 12
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Angelo I. George
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Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780971303836
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMummies, Catacombs and Mammoth Cave recounts the discovery of Indian mummies in American caves. Over three thousand years ago Native Americans used caves as their workplace, home, and site for burials. Many are found in the Mammoth Cave area. The book traces the exploits of a number of Indiana Jones kind of adventurers and their amazing discoveries of mysterious catacombs and caves full of Indian mummies. A catacomb of prehistoric Indian mummies was reported in an 1808 travelogue. A pioneer discovery of a dry cave full of well-preserved Indian mummies adjacent to Lexington, Kentucky - The first burials reported of this nature in an America cave. Three years later, saltpeter miners began to dig up mummies in a cave near Mammoth Cave. One of these, Fawn Hoof, the best known of all the mummies, was taken to Mammoth Cave and exhibited. In 1816, newspapers carried Nahum Ward's report of a swashbuckling cave exploring adventure. It was an adventure like no other - stupendous rooms, exploring miles of passage, seeing sparkling formations and a petrified Indian mummy. The mummy really captivated people's attention. Tourist traveled to the cave to see this wonder of nature and relive the adventure, making Mammoth Cave a top tourist destination as a famous abode of prehistoric Indians. Today, Mammoth Cave is the longest cave in the world - with surveyed passages measuring over 400 miles in length.
Author: Harold Meloy
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 43
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Angelo I. George
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 117
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Arthur C. Aufderheide
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 636
ISBN-13: 9780521818261
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Author: William Stump Forwood
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Published: 1870
Total Pages: 272
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bob Thompson
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780738515144
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVintage photographs show the history of the caves that make up the Mammoth Cave area from 1866-1941.
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: 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: Horton H. Hobbs III
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-06-14
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 3319537180
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book reveals the science and beauty of Mammoth Cave, the world's longest cave, which has played an important role in the natural sciences. It offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary treatment of the cave, combining insights from leading experts in fields ranging from archeology and cultural history to life science and geosciences. The first animals specialized for cave life in North America, including beetles, spiders, crayfish, and fish, were discovered in Mammoth Cave in the 1840s. It has also been used and explored by humans, including Native Americans, who mined its sulfate minerals and later African-American slaves, who made a map of the cave. More recent stories include 'wars' between commercial cave owners, epic exploration trips by modern cave explorers, and of course tourism. The first section of the book is an extensive description including maps and photos of the cave, its basic structural pattern, and how it relates to the surface landscape. The second section covers the human history of utilization and exploration of the cave, including mining, tourism, and medical experiments. Cave science is the topic of the third section, including geology, hydrology, mineralogy, climatology, paleontology, ecology, biodiversity, and microbiology. The fourth section looks to the future, with an overview of environmental issues facing Mammoth Cave managers. The book is intended for anyone interested in caves in general and Mammoth Cave in particular, experts in one discipline seeking information about other areas, and researchers and students interested in the many avenues of pursuit possible in Mammoth Cave.