Research Catalog

Title

Trapped! : The story of Floyd Collins / by Robert K. Murray and Roger W. Brucker.

Author

Murray, Robert K.

Publication

Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, 1982, c1979.

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Additional Authors

Brucker, Roger W.

Description

335 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill., maps, ports.; 23 cm.

Summary

• 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 Floyd Collins story that has come to light since the book was first published.

Subject

• Collins, Floyd, 1887-1925
• Speleologists > United States > Biography
• Caves > Kentucky
• Sand Cave (Ky.)

Genre/Form

Biographies

Note

• "Originally published by G.P. Putnam's Sons."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

To find a new cavern -- Friends and relatives -- The outside world intrudes -- Human chains and high hopes -- Final contact -- The state takes over -- Carnival Sunday -- Investigation and frustration -- The struggle ends -- Making of a legend -- Epilogue -- Epilogue 1999.

ISBN

0813101530

LCCN

^^^82040177^

OCLC

• 9182506
• SCSB-10833728

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library