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Mammoth Cave National Park History: Indigenous Exploration, Cave Guides & the Cave Wars

Mammoth Cave National Park is famous for containing the world’s longest known cave system, but the human story beneath the hills of central Kentucky is almost as remarkable as the cave itself. Thousands of years before modern tourists entered Mammoth Cave, Indigenous people explored its passages by the light of river-cane torches. During the early …

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