Marion O. Smith is a notorious caver and speleo-historian (see NSS
News, October 2012). He's the sort of history wonk who can state the
exact date he first met me, some forty years ago. He also knows my
date of birth. He claims that's easy, because my birthday is the same
as President Andrew Johnson's, but how many people would know _that_?
He has prepared a book on Confederate mining of saltpeter and other
materials west of the Mississippi River. His book "Confederate Nitre
Bureau Operation in Alabama" (2007) is 101 pages long and has 360
footnotes, many of them to items found in the 1,165 rolls of microfilm
records he scanned. The volume on Arkansas and Texas will not be as
extensive, but it still lists 88 sources. I have offered to prepare
the book for printing.
Marion would like to include nice entrance photos of Davis Blowout
Cave, Blanco Country, Bracken Bat Cave, Comal Country, and Frio Bat
Cave, Uvalde County, all of which were used as sources during the
Civil War. A good one might even appear on front or back cover.
Potential photos should be sent to me. (Marion has no Internet.) --
Bill Mixon
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