Trapped!: The Story of Floyd Collins
When small-town farmer and cave explorer Floyd Collins became trapped in a southern Kentucky cave 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 most prominent of the century. The crowds that gathered outside Sand Cave turned the rescue site into a carnival. Collins's plight was front-page news throughout the country, hourly bulletins interrupted radio programs, and Congress recessed to hear the latest word.

With a new foreword by Tina Landau, bookwriter and director of the musical Floyd Collins, as well as a new afterword by Roger W. Brucker, Trapped! is a tense adventure and a brilliant historical re-creation of the past—a tale as enthralling today as it was when the event took place over one hundred years ago.

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Trapped!: The Story of Floyd Collins
When small-town farmer and cave explorer Floyd Collins became trapped in a southern Kentucky cave 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 most prominent of the century. The crowds that gathered outside Sand Cave turned the rescue site into a carnival. Collins's plight was front-page news throughout the country, hourly bulletins interrupted radio programs, and Congress recessed to hear the latest word.

With a new foreword by Tina Landau, bookwriter and director of the musical Floyd Collins, as well as a new afterword by Roger W. Brucker, Trapped! is a tense adventure and a brilliant historical re-creation of the past—a tale as enthralling today as it was when the event took place over one hundred years ago.

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Trapped!: The Story of Floyd Collins

Trapped!: The Story of Floyd Collins

Overview

When small-town farmer and cave explorer Floyd Collins became trapped in a southern Kentucky cave 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 most prominent of the century. The crowds that gathered outside Sand Cave turned the rescue site into a carnival. Collins's plight was front-page news throughout the country, hourly bulletins interrupted radio programs, and Congress recessed to hear the latest word.

With a new foreword by Tina Landau, bookwriter and director of the musical Floyd Collins, as well as a new afterword by Roger W. Brucker, Trapped! is a tense adventure and a brilliant historical re-creation of the past—a tale as enthralling today as it was when the event took place over one hundred years ago.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781985903326
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Publication date: 04/15/2025
Edition description: updated edition
Pages: 358
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.95(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Robert K. Murray (1922–2019) was professor of history at Pennsylvania State University for more than three decades as well as a senior fellow in the university's Institute for the Arts and Humanities. His work includes The Harding Era: Warren G. Harding and His Administration, The 103rd Ballot: Democrats and the Disaster in Madison Square Garden, and the coauthored book Greatness in the White House: Rating the Presidents—From George Washington through Ronald Reagan. Roger W. Brucker is a lifelong cave explorer and cofounder of the Cave Research Foundation. He is coauthor of several books, including The Longest Cave with Richard A. Watson, and is also author of Grand, Gloomy, and Peculiar: Stephen Bishop at Mammoth Cave and Mama Says, Don't Cave: Ergor's Unbelievable Cave Stories (under the pseudonym Ergor Rubreck).

Table of Contents

Foreword by Tina Landau
Prologue
1. To Find a New Cavern
2. Friends and Relatives
3. The Outside World Intrudes
4. Human Chains and High Hopes
5. Final Contact
6. The State Takes Over
7. Carnival Sunday
8. Investigation and Frustration
9. The Struggle Ends
10. Making of a Legend
Epilogue
Epilogue 1999
Afterword 2025
Notes on Sources
Index

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