Beneath Their Feet: A Novel About Mammoth Cave and Its People

From heartache to joy, these are the stories of mummies, earthquakes and a doomed hospital in a cave, dynamite and thievery. Here is a history spanning the first 130 years of the longest cave in the world. Beneath Their Feet is told through the fictional lives of four generations living on Mammoth Cave Ridge until the government bought their farm to make room for one of the country's most colorful National Parks. Beneath Their Feet is a colorful tapestry interwoven between the real and the imagined involving the lives of the Penn and Lamber families. This is a story involving the hardships and struggles of these strong, independent, hard-working men and women who formed a part of south-central Kentucky, wrested from a sparsely populated land of hard clay. Beneath Their Feet is the first book to tell the history of Mammoth Cave in novel form.

Literature & Fiction

Quinlan, Patricia H.

Contemporary

iUniverse

<p>Robert Looney brought his wife and seven children from the Isle-of-Man in 1734, landing in Philadelpia. He settled first on the south side of the Potomac River. Within a few years, he moved his family into what is now Botetourt County, Virginia. Settlelers along the Appalachian Valley were the far frontier serving as a buffer against Indian attacks east of the Blue Ridge. Robert would lose four sons and other family members to Indian attack. One son would be captured. The family would prosper, grow and expand into Tennessee, Alabama and eventually many other states.</p>

The Looney Family on the Rugged Frontier

Genre Fiction

Independently published

<p>This story of Peter Looney is based on truth. He was a Sargent in the miltia at Fort Vause in southwestern Virginia. The fort was destroyed by one hundred Indians and some French soldiers. Seventeen men, three women and four girls were taken across the Shannandoah Mountains where the men had to walk up creeks, through dense forest and sleep on the ground with nothing to cover them. The women and girls were allowed to ride, but they too had to sleep on the ground, endure rain storms, heat and whatever food the Indians gave them. If their shoes wore out they walked barefoot.This was a trip of several weeks before they were taken across the Ohio River. Not everyone lived to see the end of their journey. They were divided up among the different tribes. Most were never heard from again. But Peter was adopted by a chief and lived to tell his story.</p>

The Story Of Peter Looney: His Year Living With The Indians

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Quinlan, Patricia H.. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Quinlan, Patricia H.

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Quinlan, Patricia H.. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Beneath Their Feet: A Novel About Mammoth Cave and Its People

The Looney Family on the Rugged Frontier

The Story Of Peter Looney: His Year Living With The Indians