Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico

Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico - The Story of its Early Explorations, as told by Jim White

Bats!... millions of black little mammals drifting along the horizon and seeming to fuse into the hazy clouds of a New Mexico sunset! That was the spectacle which led Jim White, back at the turn of the century, to become interested in the colossal phenomenon designated by Act of Congress as Carlsbad Caverns National Park. If you could ask him about it today, Jims eyes would probably turn inward as hed muse and remember. I thought it was a volcanobut then Id never seen one. For that matter, Id never seen bats fly. I had seen plenty of prairie whirlwinds during my life on the range, but this thing didnt move. It seemed to stay in one spot near the groundbut the top kept spinning upward. I watched maybe a half-an-hour, and being about as curious as the next fellow, I started toward the place. Jim White, native of Mason County, Texas, grew up ranching ... surrounded by the cattle-business, without even a grammar school education. Jim would have preferred bustin broncos to books and blackboards even if there had been a little log schoolhouse on his native soil. So it was an experienced ten-year-old range-rider who teamed up with John and Dan Lucas of the X-X-X Ranch in New Mexico, three miles or so from the entrance to the cave. Jim White spent eight or ten years on the range surrounding Lucas Ranchhouse, and like the other rangemen, had known of the bat cave, but he had felt no impelling urge to see what was hiding in its darkness. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 49970
Author: White, Jim
Release Date: Sep 14, 2015
Format: eBook
Language: English