Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-209) and index.
Contents:
American Indians -- The original landowners -- Saltpeter mining during the War of 1812 -- An 1813 letter -- Discovery of the giant ground sloth -- The mummies of Big Bone Cave -- Saltpeter mining during the Civil War -- The origin of Saltpeter in caves -- James M. Safford's box of bones -- The sloth bones discovery of 1896 -- The visit by Thomas L. Bailey in 1917 -- The 1862 Passage -- The visits by Thomas C. Barr, Jr. in the 1950s -- My first visit to Big Bone Cave -- The great atomic bomb shelter fiasco -- The robbery of 1965 -- The survey of Big Bone Cave -- Discovery of the jaguar skeleton -- Big Bone Cave receives national recognition -- Fossil birds from Big Bone Cave -- State natural area -- Soot deposits, blasting, and other observations -- Paleofeces and other artifacts -- The great radon scare -- The great radon scare : part II -- The geology of Big Bone Cave -- The biology of Big Bone Cave -- Saltpeter mining in other Tennessee caves.
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