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From heartache to joy, these are the stories of mummies, earthquakes and a doomed hospital in a cave, dynamite and thievery. Here is a history spanning the first 130 years of the longest cave in the world."Beneath Their Feet" is told through the fictional lives of four generations living on Mammoth Cave Ridge until the government bought their farm to make room for one of the country's most colorful National Parks."Beneath Their Feet" is a colorful tapestry interwoven between the real and the imagined involving the lives of the Penn and Lamber families. This is a story involving the hardships and struggles of these strong, independent, hard-working men and women who formed a part of south-central Kentucky, wrested from a sparsely populated land of hard clay."Beneath Their Feet" is the first book to tell the history of Mammoth Cave in novel form.Quinlan, Patricia is the author of 'Beneath Their Feet: A Novel about Mammoth Cave and Its People' with ISBN 9780595662432 and ISBN 0595662439.
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