Carver’s Cave / Wakan Tipi
Here’s a free pdf of my 2009 article on Carver’s Cave/Wakan Tipi:
Category Archives: Carver’s Cave
“A Bigger Thing”: The Rhetoric of Exploration in Early Minnesota Caving
The following clipping, from the St Paul Dispatch, December 3, 1913, is the earliest document I have seen regarding the mysterious inner room of Carver’s Cave. However, the discovery narrative presented therein is also of interest as the earliest Minnesota “trip report” to employ the rhetoric that has become so familiar in caving newsletters everywhere […]