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.
Contents
I. Woodcraft
II. Getting Lost--Bivouacs
III. Pathfinding
IV. Nature's Guide Posts
V. Blazes-Survey Lines-Use of the Compass
VI. Route Sketching-Mapping-Measuring
VII. Trips Afoot
VIII. Packs for Pedestrians
IX. How to Walk-A Hunter's Pack-Going Alone
X. Concentrated Foods
XI. Marksmanship in theWoods
XII. Axemanship-Qualities and Utilization of Wood
XIII. Tomahawk Shelters-Axemen's Camps-Caches-Masked Camps
XIV. Cabin Building-Rustic Furniture
XV. Bark Utensils-Bast Ropes and Twine-Root and Vine Cordage-Withes
and Splits
XVI. Knots, Hitches and Lashings
XVII. Trophies-Pelts, Buckskin and Rawhide
XVIII. Tanning Skins-Other Animal Products
XIX. Cave Exploration
XX. Bee Hunting
XXI. Edible Plants of the Wilderness
XXII. Living off the Country-In Extremis
XXIII. Accidents and Emergencies: their Backwoods Treatment
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