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If you enjoy caving there are some great destinations in the US for cave lovers. One of the best locations in fact, is an entire state. The state of Missouri is well known for caves and caverns, many of which are rumored to have been used as outlaw hideouts during the days of the Wild West and later the depression era. Several Missouri caves are, according to legend, former hideouts of Jesse and Frank James, and many people believe that bank robbery gold is still buried in the hills. Pretty Boy Floyd during the depression did most of his hiding out in the Ozarks near Bolivar, Missouri, and often hid in Fantastic Caverns, a popular tourist attraction today for the beauty of the rock walls. A little south of Bolivar is the town of Branson, a well known tourist destination today which had its early start in tourism because of Marvel Cave, a great place full of natural rock formations that reminds one of the cave in Tom Sawyer, where Tom and Becky were lost. In the 1800’s Marvel Cave was the scene of meetings of the Baldknobbers, a vigilante group, but by the 1920’s it was a tourist attraction and has been one ever since. Surrounded today by music shows and other attractions, it is still popular for its beauty and wonder.
Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico is another cave dweller destination. More than a thousand years ago the prehistoric people of America went into the caverns for shelter and their cave drawings are still near the entrance. Later in the 1800’s settlers found the caverns after seeing hundreds of thousands of bats coming up out of the entrance. Some began to mine the bat guano to sell as fertilizer. One of these men was a cowboy named Jim White who was fascinated by the caves and began to explore. He began to take photographs to convince skeptics, and when interest arose he began to take people on tours which included being lowered 170 feet in a bucket that had previously been used to haul bat guano. When the US department of the Interior heard of the cave in 1923 they sent an inspector named Robert Holley, who wrote of the caverns ‘, I am wholly conscious of the feebleness of my efforts to convey in the deep conflicting emotions, the feeling of fear and awe, and the desire for an inspired understanding of the Divine Creator’s work which presents to the human eye such a complex aggregate of natural wonders, .’ It wasn’t long before Carlsbad Caverns became a national monument, with White named the first ranger of the ……
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