Trapped!: The Story of Floyd Collins

“”An exciting narrative account of Floyd Collins’s entrapment in a Kentucky cave in 1925 and the folklore that grew around what became a great public event.”” — The Journal of Southern History

“”An eye-opening look at the 1925 news story of Kentuckian Floyd Collins, trapped in a cave near Cave City…. Both a fine historical investigative piece and a compelling read.”” — Kentucky Monthly

“”The event was ranked the third largest news story between World Wars I and II, topped only by Charles Lindbergh’s crossing of the Atlantic in 1927 and the kidnapping of his baby in 1932.”” — El Paso Times

“”The story of Floyd Collins’s entrapment in a Kentucky cave makes for chilling and exciting reading.”” — Library Journal

“”The tension and confusion of the days of rescue attempts are made real…. The abysmally tragic efforts to capitalize on an exhibition of the cave explorer’s body is not omitted.”” — The Augusta Chronicle

“”This gripping account of the 1925 entrapment of Floyd Collins in Sand Cave simultaneously thrills and terrifies any reader.”” — Kentucky Living

“”TRAPPED! is both a tense adventure and a brilliant historical recreation of the past.”” — pselunking-books.blogspot.com

Robert K. Murray (1922-2019) was professor of history at Pennsylvania State University for more than three decades as well as a senior fellow in the university’s Institute for the Arts and Humanities. His work includes The Harding Era: Warren G. Harding and His Administration, The 103rd Ballot: Democrats and the Disaster in Madison Square Garden, and the coauthored book Greatness in the White House: Rating the Presidents–From George Washington through Ronald Reagan.

Roger W. Brucker is a lifelong cave explorer and cofounder of the Cave Research Foundation. He is coauthor of several books, including The Longest Cave with Richard A. Watson, and is also author of Grand, Gloomy, and Peculiar: Stephen Bishop at Mammoth Cave and Mama Says, Don’t Cave: Ergor’s Unbelievable Cave Stories (under the pseudonym Ergor Rubreck).