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Wind Cave National ParkEarly cave tour clusered around an American flag in Fallen Flats
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Wind Cave National Park
Mazes and Marvels of Wind Cave
 
E.C. Horn was a travel writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His booklet, Mazes and Marvels of Wind Cave (1901), along with Luella Agnes Owen's Cave Regions of the Ozarks and Black Hills (1898) were the first books published about Wind Cave. These books, in conjunction with Alvin McDonald's diary, The Private Account of A.F. McDonald, provide the earliest accounts of Wind Cave.
Historic tour of Wind Cave
Mazes and Marvels of Wind Cave
by E.C. Horn was one of the first books published about Wind Cave. It as published in 1901.
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Alvin McDonald's Diary
Alvin McDonald
Read the diary of the first explorer of Wind Cave.
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Sign used at Wind Cave in 1903 when the cave became a national park.  

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Wind Cave is the first cave in the world to be designated as a national park. That occurred on January 9, 1903.

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Last Updated: January 28, 2008 at 11:22 EST