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Index to Greg Brick’s “Spelean History Corner” in the Minnesota Speleology Monthly (2002-2010)
1. La Moille Cave Exists! (Feb 2002)
2. A Minnesota Show Cave Advertisement from 1876 (April 2002)
3. The Caves of Mushroom Valley (May 2002)
4. Tourist Accommodations at Fountain Cave in the 1850s (June 2002)
5. Underground Minneapolis (July 2002)
6. The Monster of Carver’s Cave (Aug 2002)
7. Le Conte’s Account of the Caves of the Apostle Islands in 1844 (Sept 2002)
8. Apollo’s Cave: A Newly Discovered Cave Hoax (Jan 2003)
9. The University of Minnesota Cheese Caves (Feb 2003)
10. Bizarre Journalism at Fountain Cave and its Lessons for the Speleohistorian (April 2003)
11. A Curious Case of Inverted Stratigraphy at Chute’s Cave (May 2003)
12. “Terrific Battles”: Pests, Disease, and Technological Change at St. Paul’s Mushroom Caves (June/July/Aug 2003)
13. Caves of the St. Croix (Sept 2003)
14. The Mythology of Subterranean Lakes in St. Paul (Oct 2003)
15. Christmas, 1880—The Tragic End of a Minnesota Show Cave (Nov/Dec 2003)
16. “Cave Shaped Like an Inverted Bowl”: The 1904 Discovery of Schieks Cave (Jan/Feb 2004)
17. 10,000 Years of Speleohistory in Minnesota (Mar 2004)
18. The Wyandotte Cave of Minnesota (April 2004)
19. Caves in the Sand-Rock, West St. Paul (May 2004)
20. A Piping Voice: Theories of Cave Genesis in Minnesota Prior to 1880 (June 2004)
21. “Nature’s Laboratory”: The Virtues of Antebellum Groundwater (July/Aug 2004)
22. “A Bigger Thing”: The Rhetoric of Exploration in Early Minnesota Caving (Sept/Oct 2004)
23. “Undistinguishable Grunts”: Cave Hermits in Minnesota (Nov 2004)
24. The Prehistory of Mystery Cave: “Well-Known Subterranean Passages” (Dec 2004)
25. “The Omnipresent Jack-Knife”: An 1857 Cave Conservation Message from Minnesota (Jan/Feb 2005)
26. Canton’s Bear Cave: An Investigation of Fillmore County’s Oldest Cave Reference (Mar 2005)
27. A Minnesota Show Cave Advertisement from 1852 (April 2005)
28. “Charon Trimmed His Lamp”: Carver’s Cave and the Definition of a Show Cave (May 2005)
29. The Serpent God of the Iron Cave: Hydromythology of the Dakota Indians (June 2005)
30. The Missing Century in the Minnesota Karst (July 2005)
31. The Lake City Cave: A Hitherto Unrecognized Commercialization Attempt from 1892 (Aug 2005)
32. A Subterranean Anthology from “The West Saint Paul Times” (Sept/Oct 2005)
33. Stahlmann’s Cellars: The Cave Under the Castle (Nov 2005)
34. What Should Cavers do During the Coming Influenza Pandemic? (Dec 2005)
35. Guide Patter: Well-Intentioned Nonsense (Jan/Feb 2006)
36. Bromley’s Cave: The Carver’s Cave of Minneapolis (Mar/Apr 2006)
37. Apocalyptic Waters: The Earliest Account of Cave Pollution [in Minnesota] (May/June 2006)
38. “This Questionable Enterprise”: An Early Account of Ropework in Minnesota Caving (July/Aug 2006)
39. Biospeleology in Minnesota: The Unusual Case of Schieks Cave (Sept/Oct 2006)
40. Historical Perceptions of the Rate of Geological Change at Carver’s Cave (Nov/Dec 2006)
41. Lund’s Theory of Cave Nitrates (Jan/Feb 2007)
42. The Niagara Cavers at Big Room Cave (Mar 2007)
43. The Treasure Cave of Spirit Island (April 2007)
44. A New Interpretation of Minneapolis History Based on Cave Deposits (May 2007)
45. Blessing the Cliffs (June/July 2007)
46. Recycled Imagery: The Minnesota Alter Ego of a Wisconsin Cave (Aug 2007)
47. Beavering into Cave History (Sept 2007)
48. The Bell Witch Cave (Oct 2007)
49. Deep Down Under (Nov/Dec 2007)
50. Adventures in the Red Wing Catacombs (Aug 2008)
51. Lost in Translation: How a Cartographic Blunder May Have Sealed the Fate of Fountain Cave (Sept 2008)
52. “The Beautiful Little Valley”: An Early Description of Pseudokarst in Minnesota (Nov 2008)
53. Red or Blue? Caves of Southwestern Minnesota (Dec 2008/Jan 2009)
54. Cave of Happy Musing on Misery (July 2009)
55. Sabertooth Caves, 1904 (Jan 2010)
