For you speleo-history buffs, there's a new book coming out this month that contains a report on what may have been the first exploration of Phantom Lake Cave in the 1850s. General Zenas R. Bliss was stationed at Fort Davis at the time and recalls the efforts of a couple officers to explore the cave with candles propped up on their canteens as they swam into the cave. Smith, Thomas T., Jerry D. Thompson, Robert Wooster, and Ben E. Pingenot (eds.). 2007. The reminiscences of Major General Zenas R. Bliss, 1854-1876. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 750 pp. Available from: _http://www.amazon.com/Reminiscences-Major-General-Zenas-1854-1876/dp/08761122 62_ (http://www.amazon.com/Reminiscences-Major-General-Zenas-1854-1876/dp/0876112262) _http://www.tamu.edu/upress/BOOKS/2007/smithbliss.htm_ (http://www.tamu.edu/upress/BOOKS/2007/smithbliss.htm)
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