{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Floyd Collins Is Trapped in a Cave (Part 1)","description":"Floyd Collins had a dream. He dreamt that one day, he’d emerge victorious in the Kentucky Cave Wars. In that era, people made easy money turning beautiful, awe-inspiring caves into tourist destinations. The tough part was *finding* the cave. Finding a cave took months of dangerous, exhausting work, but Floyd Collins was up to the task.\n\nIn January of 1925, he felt certain that he was digging his way toward a magnificent one. Then he got stuck.\n\nRemember, kids, history hoes always cite their sources! For this episode, Norm pulled from:\n\nCollins, Homer, and John Lehrberger. The Life and Death of Floyd Collins. Cave Books, 2001.\n\nDavid R. Kem. “The Kentucky Cave Wars.” The Kentucky Cave Wars, July 5, 2025.https://kentuckycavewars.wordpress.com/.\n\n“George Morrison (U.S. National Park Service).”https://www.nps.gov/people/george-morrison.htm.\n\nKem, David Randolph. The Kentucky Cave Wars: The Century That Shaped Mammoth Cave National Park. David Randolph Kem, 2014.\n\nMurray, Robert K., and Roger W. Brucker. Trapped! The Story of Floyd Collins. University Press of Kentucky, 1982.https://archive.org/details/trappedstoryofst0000murr.\n\nReilly, Lucas. “The 1925 Cave Rescue That Captivated the Nation.” Mental Floss, July 13, 2018.https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/544782/1925-cave-rescue-that-captivated-the-united-states-floyd-collins.\n\n“Stephen Bishop (U.S. National Park Service).”https://www.nps.gov/people/stephen-bishop.htm.\n\nAre you enjoying An Old Timey Podcast? Then please leave us a 5-star rating and review wherever you listen to podcasts!\n\nAre you *really* enjoying An Old Timey Podcast? Well, calm down, history ho! You can get more of us on Patreon at http://patreon.com/oldtimeypodcast. At the $5 level, you’ll get a monthly bonus episode (with video!), access to our 90’s style chat room, plus the entire back catalog of bonus episodes from Kristin’s previous podcast, Let’s Go To Court.","author_name":"An Old Timey Podcast","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5130139-an-old-timey-podcast","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43729628/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}