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Book Synopsis The Mystery of Mammoth Cave by : Steve Kistler
Download or read book The Mystery of Mammoth Cave written by Steve Kistler and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When 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!
Book Synopsis Scary Stories of Mammoth Cave by : Colleen O'Connor Olson
Download or read book Scary Stories of Mammoth Cave written by Colleen O'Connor Olson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As 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.
Book Synopsis Beyond Mammoth Cave by : James D. Borden
Download or read book Beyond Mammoth Cave written by James D. Borden and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2000-11-20 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Beyond Mammoth Cave: A Tale of Obsession in the World’s Longest Cave, James D. Borden and Roger W. Brucker provide gripping first-person accounts of the discoveries, including Roppel Cave, that made Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave three times longer than any other cave in the world. Borden, a relative newcomer, and Brucker, a veteran explorer, bring a personal and sometimes conflicting view of their roles as adversaries in a race that lasted from 1972 through 1983 to find “big cave.” They describe hazardous adventures, precarious climbs, and close calls from falling rocks. The perils are many and the trek arduous as they squirm through muddy tubes, wade in neck-deep cold water, and crawl over sharp rocks and gritty sand. Theirs is a tale of agonizing endurance spiced by spectacular discoveries. But the cave was not the sole obstacle. The explorations were complicated by political intrigue and the rivalry between the Kentucky-based Cave Research Foundation and the Central Kentucky Karst Coalition, each seeking to make discoveries and hide secrets. Extreme stress, of course, evoked extreme behavior, ranging from selfishness to sacrifice, from outrageous humor to the deadly serious response. Beyond Mammoth Cave includes maps by Patricia Kambesis that show the progression of cave discoveries in relation to the topography. Original line drawings by well-known illustrator Linda Heslop capture the dark mystery of the exploration. The book features five black and white photographs as a color gallery of photographs. A sequel to The Longest Cave by Brucker and Richard A. Watson, this book is a comprehensive update of the speleological investigations in the Mammoth Cave region. Brucker’s involvement provides continuity to the investigation.
Book Synopsis Mystery of the Haunted Cave by : Penny Warner
Download or read book Mystery of the Haunted Cave written by Penny Warner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four Courageous Scouts Go for the Gold! Thirteen-year-old Becca and her friends Sierra, CJ, and Jonnie are determined to win the gold medal for Troop 13 at the Gold Rush Jamboree. But they face stiff competition from the other troops—especially Troop 7, whose members love to pull pranks on them. When a mysterious clue hints at treasure buried in Camp Miwok’s Haunted Caves, Becca and her friends are determined to get their hands on that, too—even if it means sneaking from camp, hanging out with bats, and being threatened by robbers....
Book Synopsis The Stolen Treasure of Mammoth Cave by : Steve Kistler
Download or read book The Stolen Treasure of Mammoth Cave written by Steve Kistler and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sequel to The Mystery of Mammoth Cave, seventh graders James and Shanda are back in the national park to attend a conference on Native American archaeology. When Shanda witnesses a crime in progress, the two young sleuths are drawn into another fantastic adventure in the park. Will their daring plans be enough to stop the loss of a valuable treasure from the great cave?
Download or read book Trapped! written by Robert K. Murray and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2013-04-06 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When Floyd Collins became trapped in a cave in southern Kentucky in early 1925, the sensationalism and hysteria of the rescue attempt generated America's first true media spectacle, making Collins's story one of the seminal events of the century. The crowds that gathered outside Sand Cave turned the rescue site into a carnival. Collins's situation was front-page news throughout the country, hourly bulletins interrupted radio programs, and Congress recessed to hear the latest word. Trapped! is both a tense adventure and a brilliant historical recreation of the past. This new edition includes a new epilogue revealing information about the Floyed Collins story that has come to light since the book was first published.
Book Synopsis Mummies, Catacombs and Mammoth Cave by : Angelo I. George
Download or read book Mummies, Catacombs and Mammoth Cave written by Angelo I. George and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mummies, 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.
Book Synopsis Mammoth Cave by : Melanie Miller-Inman
Download or read book Mammoth Cave written by Melanie Miller-Inman and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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.
Book Synopsis Journey to the Bottomless Pit by : Elizabeth Mitchell
Download or read book Journey to the Bottomless Pit written by Elizabeth Mitchell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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.
Book Synopsis Kids to the Rescue by : William Haponski
Download or read book Kids to the Rescue written by William Haponski and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is for children ages 9 and up, and it also appeals to adults as did the Laura Ingalls Wilder and Harry Potter stories. The kids from the previous book, The Cave of Healing, arrive at Mammoth Cave and are soon confronted with big problems. Because these kids can magically reduce their size to even an inch tall, they become the heroes of the Cave's search and rescue operations. The author was assisted by Mammoth cave explorers and the Cave staff in getting the geology, geography, speleology, and hydrology of the Cave right, as well as authentic actions of cave guides and rescue teams. Roger Brucker, one of the most famous cave explorers in the world, said, "This is a gripping tale, full of fun and adventure." Midwest Book Review calls it "An engrossing story to delight readers of all ages."
Book Synopsis The Longest Cave by : Roger W. Brucker
Download or read book The Longest Cave written by Roger W. Brucker and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1987-02-16 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1925 the geological connection between Flint Ridge and Mammoth Cave was proved when dye placed in a Flint Ridge spring showed up in Echo River at Mammoth Cave. That tantalizing swirl of dye confirmed speculations that wereto tempt more than 650cavers over half a century with the thrill of being the first to make human passage of the cave connection. Roger Brucker and Richard Watson tell not only of their own twenty-year effort to complete the link but the stories of many others who worked their way through mud-choked crawlways less than a foot high only to find impenetrable blockages. Floyd Collins died a grisly death in nearby Sand Cave in1925, after being trapped there for 15 days. The wide press coverage of the rescue efforts stirred the imagination of the public and his body was on macabre display in a glass-topped coffin in Crystal Cave into the 1940s. Agents of a rival cave owner once even stole his corpse, which was recovered and still is in a coffin in the cave. Modern cavers still have a word with Floyd as they start their downward treks. Brucker and Watson joined the parade of cavers who propelled themselves by wiggling kneecaps, elbows, and toes through quarter-mile long crawlways, clinging by fingertips and boot toes across mud-slick walls, over bottomless pits, into gurgling streams beneath stone ceilings that descend to water level, down crumbling crevices and up mountainous rockfalls, into wondrous domed halls, and straight ahead into a blackness intensified rather than dispelled by the carbide lamps on their helmets. Over two decades they explored the passages with others who sought the final connection as vigorously as themselves. Pat Crowther, a young mother of two, joined them and because of her thinness became the member of the crew to go first into places no human had ever gone before. In that role, in July 1972, she wiggled her way through the Tight Spot and found the route that would link the Flint Ridge and Mammoth Cave systems into one cave extending 144.4 miles through the Kentucky limestone. In a new afterword to this edition the authors summarize the subsequent explorations that have more than doubled the established length of the cave system. Based upon geological evidence, the authors predict that new discoveries will add another 200 miles to the length of the world’s longest cave, making it over 500 miles long.
Book Synopsis The Runaway Lawnmower by : Mary E. Morgan
Download or read book The Runaway Lawnmower written by Mary E. Morgan and published by Buttonwood Press (Il). This book was released on 2017 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From popular children's author Mary Morgan comes a book for younger brothers and sisters. The Runaway Lawnmower, illustrated by Hannah Fritzke, entertains while teaching a life lesson happiness comes from serving others.
Book Synopsis Ghost Hunter Kids at Mammoth Cave by : William Haponski
Download or read book Ghost Hunter Kids at Mammoth Cave written by William Haponski and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghost Hunter Kids at Mammoth Cave is the third book in the series Adventures in the Worlds of In And Out. The magical In children again visit Henry and his granddaughter Peggy by exiting a small hole in the hillside behind Henry's house. They 'form' to the natural size of children in Peggy's World of Out and are eager to return to Mammoth Cave, this time to hunt for ghosts. Cave explorer and author, Roger Brucker, says this book is "A first class cave mystery with clever twists, and sleuthing . . . . a sequel to the thrilling cave rescue of the author's previous Mammoth Cave book, Kids to the Rescue. So come along and watch Henry and the kids change size, sometimes all the way down to an inch high, which is just right for finding cave ghosts.
Book Synopsis A Historical and Descriptive Narrative of the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky by : W. Forwood
Download or read book A Historical and Descriptive Narrative of the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky written by W. Forwood and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is our purpose to describe, from our own observations made in the spring of 1867, and from the observations of others, that grand and weird cavern known as the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, a wonder of its kind, unequaled in America or in the world, within whose sublime portals travelers have confessed the most profound awe at entrance, and the greatest rapture when its glorious mysteries were made visible to them. Finding the object to be one of greater magnitude than was anticipated, it occurred to us, as an afterthought, that a short sketch might interest a friend at home. In executing this intention, it was soon discovered that a surprising number of pages were required to give even a brief intelligible outline of the great cavern. It was then suggested that the sketch which had been commenced should be extended, and published in book form, that the information it contained might be accessible to the general public, instead of being restricted to one or two friends, as at first designed. In preparing this history of the Mammoth Cave, we make as much use as possible of the materials just mentioned, collating their agreements and disagreements with our own observations. We are chiefly indebted, however, to the valuable Manual of Professor Wright for all measurements and material facts, such as can be acquired only by a protracted series of observations; and we trust that this general announcement of the authorities that we draw upon will serve us in many instances instead of quotation marks.
Book Synopsis A Visit to the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky by : John Wilson
Download or read book A Visit to the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky written by John Wilson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-27 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Visit to the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky" by John Wilson offers readers a fascinating journey into the renowned Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. Wilson's account provides vivid descriptions of the cave's vast chambers, unique geological formations, and the awe-inspiring underground world that awaits explorers. The book captures the wonder and beauty of this natural wonder, making it an engaging read for those interested in cave exploration, geology, and the wonders of the natural world.
Book Synopsis Maroo of the Winter Caves by : Ann Turnbull
Download or read book Maroo of the Winter Caves written by Ann Turnbull and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maroo, a girl of the late Ice Age, must take charge after her father is killed, and lead her little brother, mother, and aged grandmother to the safety of the winter camp before the first blizzards strike.
Book Synopsis Mammoth Cave and the Mystery of the Lake Diamonds by : Sue Skelding
Download or read book Mammoth Cave and the Mystery of the Lake Diamonds written by Sue Skelding and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-03-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Cute and Creative Read! Both educational and fun! The book is based around a family on vacation having an adventure and learning along the way. Lots of animals are involved. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Loved this book! Got this book for the kiddos in the family and they loved the stories and were able to stay fully engaged. This is a book that I'm sure will be used for more generations to come! Mia, Liam, and their parents are traveling home to Tennessee after solving the mystery of the Spirit Bear legend at Mackinac Island, Michigan. Their first stop is Mammoth Cave. While touring the cave, Mia and Liam befriend Kyle, a young boy hiding his beloved Chihuahua in his backpack. After the cave excursion, Kyle shows Mia and Liam a hand-drawn map leading to his grandfather's buried time capsule. Mia and Liam are shocked when they cross paths again with Kyle and his family at the Country Music Hall of Fame. Kyle explains his vacation was cut short, and they can't fulfill his grandfather's request. When Mia and Liam realize how close Kyle's grandfather's property is to their home in Tennessee, they wonder if they can find the buried time capsule. Will the map help Mia, Liam, and their parents find the old farm along the shores of Douglas Lake? Will they locate the buried treasure?
