[KENTUCKY, MAMMOTH CAVE] Randolph, Helen F.; Jillson, Willard Rouse; Huffman, H. Bruce

Mammoth Cave and the Cave Region of Kentucky, with Bibliography of Mammoth Cave [and] First Accurate Underground Survey

Louisville, KY: Standard Printing Company, 1924.

First Edition. Soft cover. Near fine. Illustrated wrappers (issued simultaneously in hardcover). 153 pp plus index and 4 pp ads; many b/w photos, two folding maps of the cave system. A few shallow creases to front wrapper, else fine. Introduction by N.C. Nelson of the American Museum of Natural History. Offers a nice overview of both the cave's geology and its extensive human history. Mammoth Cave was not made a national park until 1941, but it had been explored and used (as a saltpeter mine and a tourist attraction) throughout the nineteenth century, and its interest as a scientific and archaeological site was well known. Jillson's bibliography lists 96 titles.

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