Wind Cave National Park - Alvin McDonald Diary (U.S. National Park Service)

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Left to right: John Stabler, Mary McDonald, page from Alvin McDonald's Diary, Old staircase in Wind Cave, Alvin McDonald

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	Wind Cave National Park Alvin McDonald Diary

Alvin McDonald

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Alvin McDonald

Alvin McDonald was not quite 18 when he started recording his cave explorations in a diary.

Click here to view the text of Alvin McDonald's diary, or click on the page numbers below to download a PDF of each handwritten page of his diary. Each page is a separate file (50-200 k). A good place to start is on page 16 as earlier pages are mostly monetary accounts.

Monetary Accounts | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

January 1891 | 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29

February 1891 | 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47

March 1891 | 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64

April 1891 | 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81

May 1891 | 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90

June 1891 | 91 92 93 94 95 96

July 1891 | 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105

August 1891 | 106

September 1891 | 107

January - February 1892 | 110 111 112 113

March 1892 | 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128

June - July 1892 | 128 129 130 131 132 133

134 135 136 137 138 139 Cover


			Did You Know? With more than 132 miles (212 kilometers) of explored passages, Wind Cave is the 4th longest cave in the world. The cave is still being explored.

Last Updated: January 28, 2008 at 11:21 EST