Tragedy of Sand Cave
by Howard W Hartley, ©1925, Louisville, KY.
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Picture courtesy of Kentucky Down Under, Horse Cave, KY
These Chapters are reprinted by permission of Sandra K. Gorin, who presented the writing on the SCKY email list. The lecture was taken from the book authored by Howard W Hartley, ©1925, Louisville, KY.
| Table of Contents | |
| Prologue | |
| The Ballad of | |
| Chapter 1: | Collins Enters the Cave |
| Chapter 2: | The Entrapment |
| Chapter 3: | The Discovery |
| Chapter 4: | The First Sabbath |
| Chapter 5: | The World Aroused |
| Chapter 6: | Moonshine - Muck - Madness |
| Chapter 7: | The Case of Johnny Gerald |
| Chapter 8: | Nature Trumps the Second Trick |
| Chapter 9: | The Shaft is Started. |
| Chapter 10: | Dig - Dump - Pray |
| Chapter 11: | The Military Inquiry |
| Chapter 12: | Nature Blocks the Shaft |
| Chapter 13: | The Final Dash |
| Chapter 14: | Collins Found Dead |
| Chapter 15: | Cavern Made an Eternal Mausoleum |
| Epilogue: |