Trapped!

When Floyd Collins entered Sand Cave in 1925, little did he realize that he would soon become a national folk hero. His entrapment and the subsequent efforts to free him attracted national attention and became one of the most sensational news events of the 20th Century.

In Trapped!, authors Roger Brucker and Robert Murray take readers into the mind of this simple Kentucky farmer whose ambition to discover a big cave was fueled by visions of fame and fortune.

In researching Trapped!, Brucker and Murray interviewed dozens of eyewitnesses and studied hundreds of documents to uncover facts about this tragedy that were not previously known. More than a book about a caving tragedy, Trapped! is a story of personal ambition, conflicting egos, and one man's courage in the face of unspeakable terror.

Robert K Murray & Roger W Brucker
Copyright © 1979
ISBN: 978-0-8131-0153-8
347 pages, Softbound, B&W