Editing Mammoth Cave National Park (section)

==Bibliography==

===General references===
* Bridwell, Margaret M. (Bridwell 1952) ''The Story of Mammoth Cave National Park Kentucky: A Brief History'' 11th Edition 1971. (First edition copyright 1952.) No ISBN.
* Hoskins, R. Taylor [https://web.archive.org/web/20061107164817/http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/regional_review/vol7-1-2j.htm Faithful Visitor] First Park Superintendent R. Taylor Hoskins describes the yearly visits of "Pete" a tame [[summer tanager]] (''Piranga rubra''). In ''The Regional Review'', Vol VII, 1 and 2 (July–August 1941)
* Hovey, Horace Carter (Hovey 1880) ''One Hundred Miles in Mammoth Cave in 1880: an early exploration of America's most famous cavern''. with introductory note by William R. Jones. Golden, Colorado: Outbooks. (Copyright 1982) {{ISBN|0-89646-054-1}}
* Hovey, Horace Carter ''Hovey's Handbook of The Mammoth Cave of Kentucky: A Practical Guide to the Regulation Routes''. (John P. Morton & Company, Louisville, Kentucky, 1909). [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49130 Full text transcription].
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* Watson, Richard A., ed. (Watson 1981) ''The Cave Research Foundation: Origins and the First Twelve Years 1957–1968'' Mammoth Cave, Kentucky: Cave Research Foundation.

===Brucker series===
[[Roger Brucker|Roger W. Brucker]] has co-authored four nonfiction books and authored one historical novel on the history and exploration of the Mammoth Cave System. They are presented here not in the order of publication, but in the order in which the events of the books' major narratives took place:

* Brucker, Roger W. (2009) ''Grand, Gloomy, and Peculiar: Stephen Bishop at Mammoth Cave.'' Cave Books. {{ISBN|978-0-939748-72-3}} (hbk) {{ISBN|978-0-939748-71-6}} (pbk). Based on the true story of [[Stephen Bishop (cave explorer)|Stephen Bishop]], the slave who gained fame as a guide and explorer at Mammoth Cave from 1838 until his death in 1857, this historical novel is written from the perspective of Bishop's wife, Charlotte. Although it is a novel, Brucker has claimed the book does not alter any known historical facts.
* Brucker, Roger W. and Murray, Robert K. (Brucker and Murray 1983) ''Trapped: The Story of Floyd Collins.'' University of Kentucky Press. Told by a scholar of early 20th century journalism and a veteran of the modern period of Mammoth Cave exploration, this book details the events of the entrapment and attempted rescue of [[Floyd Collins]], who was trapped in a cave near Mammoth Cave in January 1925.
* Lawrence, Jr, Joe and Brucker, Roger W. (Lawrence and Brucker 1955) ''The Caves Beyond: The story of the Floyd Collins' Crystal Cave Expedition'' New York: Funk and Wagnalls. Reprinted, with new introduction, by Zephyrus Press {{ISBN|0-914264-18-4}} (pbk.) Details the story of the 1954 week-long C3 expedition from the separate points of view of the leader and an ordinary participant in the expedition, who went on to become one of the leaders of the then-nascent modern period of exploration.
* Brucker, Roger W. and Watson, Richard A. "Red" (Brucker and Watson 1976) ''The Longest Cave.'' New York : Knopf (reprinted 1987, with afterword: Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press) {{ISBN|0-8093-1322-7}} (pbk.) A comprehensive story of the exploration of Mammoth Cave told by two of the founders of the [[Cave Research Foundation]]. An invaluable appendix, "Historical Beginnings", outlines the story of the cave from prehistory to the mid-1950s, where the main narrative begins. The formation of the Cave Research Foundation is described from an insider perspective. A highly personal telling, this work is sometimes jokingly or with irony referred to by cavers as ''Roger and Red Go Caving'', though its revered status in the literature and the reputations of the authors are hardly in doubt. The 1989 reprint includes an Afterword by the authors referring to the 1983 Roppel–Mammoth connection and other subsequent events.
* Borden, James D. and Brucker, Roger W. (Borden and Brucker 2000) ''Beyond Mammoth Cave: A Tale of Obsession in the World's Longest Cave.'' Carbondale and Edwardsville, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press. {{ISBN|0-8093-2346-X}}. Taking up where ''The Longest Cave'' leaves off, carries the story of Mammoth Cave Exploration from September 10, 1972, to September 10, 1983, when a connection was surveyed between [[Roppel Cave]] and the southern reaches of Mammoth Cave. Details the origins of the Central Kentucky Karst Coalition (CKKC).

===Archaeology===
* Meloy, Harold (Meloy 1968) ''Mummies of Mammoth Cave: An account of the Indian mummies discovered in Short Cave, Salts Cave, and Mammoth Cave, Kentucky'' Shelbyville, Indiana: Micron Publishing Co., 1990 (Original copyright 1968, 1977).
* [[Patty Jo Watson|Watson, Patty Jo]] (ed.) (Watson 1974) ''Archaeology of the Mammoth Cave Area.'' Reprinted 1997 by St. Louis: Cave Books {{ISBN|0-939748-41-X}}. 31 chapters by the foremost worker in the field of Mammoth Cave archaeology and several of her colleagues. The reprinted edition includes a brief new introduction and a brief updated bibliography.
Carstens, Kenneth C (1980) Archaeological Investigations in the Central Kentucky Karst, 2 vols., Doctoral dissertation, Dep't of Anthropology, [[Washington University in St. Louis]].
Carstens, Kenneth C (1973) Archaeological Reconnaissance in Mammoth Cave National Park.  Master's thesis, Department of Anthropology, [[Washington University in St. Louis]].

===Geology===
* Brown, Richmond F. (Brown 1966). '' Hydrology of the Cavernous Limestones of the Mammoth Cave Area, Kentucky'' [Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 1837]. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office.
* Livesay, Ann, and McGrain, Preston (revised) (Livesay and McGrain 1962). ''Geology of the Mammoth Cave National Park Area''. Kentucky Geological Survey, Series X, 1962. Special Publication 7, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Kentucky. Lexington, Kentucky: University of Kentucky.
* Palmer, Arthur N. (Palmer 1981) ''A Geological Guide to Mammoth Cave National Park''. Teaneck, New Jersey: Zephyrus Press. {{ISBN|0-914264-28-1}}. 196 pp. From the "blurb" on the back cover: "How did Mammoth Cave form? How old is it? Why does it look the way it does? What do the rocks tell us? These and many other questions are answered in this book about America's most popular cave." Written for the lay reader, but with much technical information of interest to those with greater [[scientific literacy]], by a retired professor of geology at [[SUNY Oneonta]].
* White, William B. and Elizabeth L., eds. (White and White 1989) ''Karst Hydrology: Concepts from the Mammoth Cave Area''. New York: Van Nostrand Rheinhold. {{ISBN|0-442-22675-6}}.