Making Their Mark: The Signature of Slavery at Mammoth Cave

The legacies forged from Mammoth Cave guides, like Stephen Bishop, Mat and Nick Bransford, Ed Bishop, Bob Lively, and Ed Hawkins, were as permanent as the signatures they scratched on the cave’s walls. As guides and explorers, they would provide comfort, humor, safety, and intellect as they led visitors into the majestic, mysterious, and sometimes frightening labyrinth underneath the ground.
Visitors would record their time there, often mentioning their encounters with these enslaved or freed Black guides—and unknowingly gave them an immortality only the written word can give. To modern-day cavers, the men of Mammoth Cave and the sons who shared their legend are more than predecessors —they are heroes who made their mark.

Product Details

• Historical nonfiction
• 71 pages, approx. 6"x 9", soft cover
  
• Text by Joy Medley Lyons
  
• Printed in USA, published by Eastern National