Word: caving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed bills creating the Manmoth Cave, Shenandoah and Great Smoky Mountains national parks. (Bills went to the president...
...Passed bills creating Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky, Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee, by unanimous consent. (Bills went to the House...
...whoop of joy which Dr. Spinden let out when he found this cupola was good to hear. We had been clearing brush and trees a foot in diamter from the terraces and stairway for several hours. At the risk of a dangerous cave-in he climbed to the top of the temple, where the brush and cactus were so thick that he had hacked for fifteen or twenty minutes before he could discern the outline of the cupoia. I believe his elation did much to convince the Indians helping as that we were not hunting for gold as their kind...
...river on a small skin raft to the railhead and a hence by rail to Peking. Starr, Stimson and Warner brought up Lie rear more slowly on carts till they too reached the river and changed to a raft. On the return march five sets of small early Buddhist cave chapels were explored, two of them hitherto unreported. The early sculpture at these sites had been entirely destroyed and the wall paintings had been restored in the twelfth or thirteenth centuries. Photographic records were made of the most important of these wall paintings which may be the subjects...
...William Burke Miller, $1,000, for best reporting. His subject was Floyd Collins in Sand Cave, Ky.; his paper, the Louisville Courier-Journal...