id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7917 Floyd Collins - Wikipedia .html text/html 2635 229 74 February 13, 1925), better known as Floyd Collins, was an American cave explorer, principally in a region of Central Kentucky that houses hundreds of miles of interconnected caverns within Mammoth Cave National Park, the longest cave system in the world. In the period of Kentucky history known as the "Cave Wars," the Floyd Collins family owned their own cave called Crystal Cave, a tourist show cave in the karst region of Mammoth Cave. The attention over the rescue attempt of Collins created interest in the creation of Mammoth Cave National Park, of which Sand Cave is now a part. In the 1970s, cave explorer and author Roger Brucker and a small group entered Sand Cave to conduct research for a book about Collins. The Life and Death of Floyd Collins, as told to Jack Lehrberger, Cave Books, 2009. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Floyd Collins. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7917.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7917.txt