“[Three months later] there was a cave-in in a North Carolina mine in which 71 men were caught and 53 actually lost. It attracted no great notice. It was ‘just a mine disaster.’ “Yet for more than two weeks the plight of a single commonplace prospector for tourists [near Mammoth Cave] had riveted the attention of the […]
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Why one miner drew attention that 71 didn’t
Posted in Just A Bite on November 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
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