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AMERICAN CAMPIN -LEAD TP Tt?;t-U'. 2116 r^r' ^^' '-"tO U 0*0 . f^HlLADELPHT.^^ ASSN. HON COM. i. il 31, PA. AMERICAN CA .^CIATION E. P. C, A. TB ' JMMITTJEB 2116 NOP. . ;.i ::tREJ8T PHILADELPHIA 31, PA. .i From the collection of the ^ m o Prehnger ^ Uibrary t P San Francisco, California 2008 ^V, ?^ BY HORACE KEPHART OUR SOUTHERN HIGHLANDERS THE BOOK OF CAMPING AND WOODCRAFT SPORTING FIREARMS CAMP COOKERY CAMPING CAMPING AND WOODCRAFT A- HANDBOOK FOR VACATION CAMPERS AND FOR TRAVELERS IN THE W^ILDERNESS BY HORACE KEPHART Aiuthor of *'Our Southern Highlanders," "Sporting Firearms," "Camp Cookery," etc. AMKIICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION :.R' ^' "^^AINING COMMITTEK 2116 NORTH S8th STHEBT PHILADELPfllA 31, PA. Two Volumes in One Vol. I CAMPING Nm fork THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1957 7^^ * COPTHIQHT, 1917, By the MACMILLAN COMPANlf New Edition Two Volumes in One, 1921 Eighteenth Printing, 1957 All rights reserved—no part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission m writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review written for inclusion in magazine or newspaper. Printed m the United States of America To THE SHADE OF NESSMUK IN THE HAPPY HUNTING GROUND 7'p- 629()0 PREFACE The present work is based upon my Book of Camping and Woodcraft, which appeared in igo6. All of the original material here retained has been revised, and so much new matter has been added that this is virtually a new work, filling two volumes instead of one. My first book was intended as a pocket manual for those who travel where there are no roads and who perforce must go light. I took little thought of the fast-growing multitude who go to more ac- cessible places and camp out just for the pleasure and healthfulness of open-air life. It had seemed to me that outfitting a party for fixed camp w^ithiri reach of wagons was so simple that nobody would want advice about it. But I have learned that such matters are not so easy to the multitude as I had assumed; and there are, to be sure, " wrinkles," plenty of them, in equipping and managing sta- tionary camps that save trouble, annoyance, or ex- pense. Consequently I am adding several chap- ters expressly for that class of campers, and I treat the matter of outfitting much more fully than be- fore. It is not to be supposed that experienced travelers w^ill agree with me all around in matters of equip- ment. Every old camper has his own notions about such things, and all of us are apt to be a bit dog- matic. As Richard Harding Davis says, " The same article that one declares is the most essential to his comfort, health, and happiness is the very first thing that another will throw into the trail. A man's outfit is a matter which seems to touch his private honor. I have heard veterans sitting PREFACE around a camp-fire proclaim the superiority of their kits with a jealousy, loyalty, and enthusiasm they would not exhibit for the flesh of their flesh and the bone of their bone. On a campaign you may attack a man's courage, the flag he serves, the news- paper for which he works, his intelligence, or his camp manners, and he will Ignore you ; but If you criticise his patent water-bottle he will fall upon you with both fists." Yet all of us who spend much time in the woods are keen to learn about the other fellow's " kinks." And field equipment is a most excellent hobby to amuse one during the shut-in season. I know nothing else that so restores the buoyant optimism of youth as overhauling one's kit and planning trips for the next vacation. Solomon himself knew the heart of man no better than that fine old sportsman who said to me *' It isn't the fellow who's catching lots of fish and shooting plenty of game that's hav- ing the good time: it's the chap who's getting ready to do it." I must thank the public for the favor It showed my Book of Camping and Woodcraft, which passed, with slight revision, through seven editions in ten years. For a long time I have wished to expand the work and bring it up to date. As there is a well- defined boundary between the two subjects of camp- ing and woodcraft. It has seemed best to devote a separate volume to each. The first of these is here offered, to be followed as soon as practicable by the other, which will deal chiefly with such shifts and expedients as are learned or practised in the wilder- ness itself, where we have nothing to choose from but the raw materials that lie around us. Acknowledgments are due to the D. T. Aber- cromble Co., New York, the Abercromble & Fitch Co., New York, and the New York Sporting Goods Co., for permission to reproduce certain illustrations of tents and other equipment. This book had its origin in a series of articles PREFACE under the same title that I contributed, in 1904- 1906, to the magazine Field and Stream. Other sections have been published, in whole or in part, in Sports Afield, Recreation, Forest and Strs'am, and Outing. A great deal of the work here appears for the first time. Many of these pages were written in the wilder- ness, where there were abundant facilities for test- ing the value of suggestions that were outside the range of my previous experience. In this connec- tion I must acknowledge indebtedness to a scrap- book full of notes and clippings from sportsmen's journals which was one of the most valued tomes in the rather select " library " that graced half a soap-box in one corner of my cabin. I owe much both to the spirit and the letter of that classic in the literature of outdoor life, the lit- tle book on Woodcraft, by the late George R. Sears, who is best known by his Indian-given title of '' Nessmuk." To me, in a peculiar sense, it has been rermdium utriusque fortunce; and it is but fitting that I should dedicate to the memory of its author this pendant to his work. Horace Kephart. Bryson City, N. C, February, 19 16. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGi. I Vacation Time 17 II Outfitting 23 III Tents for Fixed Camps ... 29 IV Furniture, Tools, and Utensils FOR Fixed Camps . . . -53 V Tents for Shifting Camps . . 68 VI Types of Light Tents , . . 76 VII Light Camp Equipment ^ . . 109 VIII Camp Bedding 124 IX Clothing . . . . • . .138 X Personal Kits 164 XI Provisions 178 XII Camp Making 208 XIII The Camp-fire 225 XIV Pests of the Woods . . . .241 XV Dressing and Keeping Game and Fish 264 XVI Camp Cookery— Meats . . . 290 XVII Camp Cookery— Game . . . 305 XVIII Camp Cookery — Fish and Shellfish 321 XIX Camp Cookery — Cured Meats, ETC.— Eggs 332 XX Camp Cookery — Breadstuffs AND Cereals 342 XXI Camp Cookery— Vegetables — Soups 363 XXII Beverages and Desserts . . .378 XXIII Cook's Miscellany .... 386 Index . . -. 395

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