CAMPING AND WOODCRAFT, VOL. 1
By Horace Kephart
Excerpt from Preface
The present work is based upon my "Book of Camping and Woodcraft,"
which appeared in 1906. 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
accessible 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 within 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 stationary camps that save trouble, annoyance, or expense.
Consequently I am adding several chapters expressly for that class
of campers, and I treat the matter of outfitting much more fully
than before.
It is not to be supposed that experienced travelers will agree with
me all around in matters of equipment. Every old camper has his own
notions about such things, and all of us are apt to be a bit
dogmatic. 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 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 newspaper 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."
Contents
I. Vacation Time
II. Outfitting
III. Tents for Fixed Camps
IV. Furniture, Tools, and Utensils for Fixed Camps
V. Tents for Shifting Camps
VI. Types of Light Tents
VII. Light Camp Equipment
VIII. Camp Bedding
IX. Clothing
X. Personal Kits
XI. Provisions
XII. Camp Making
XIII. The Camp-fire
XIV. Pests of the Woods
XV. Dressing and Keeping Game and Fish
XVI. Camp Cookery - Meats
XVII. Camp Cookery - Game
XVIII. Camp Cookery - Fish and Shellfish
XIX. Camp Cookery - Cured Meats, Etc. - Eggs
XX. Camp Cookery - Breadstuffs and Cereals
XXI. Camp Cookery - Vegetables - Soups
XXII. Beverages and Desserts
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