The Book of Camp-Lore and Woodcraft

WHEN America gave Indian corn to the world she gave it a priceless gift full of condensed pep. Corn in its various forms is a wonderful food power; with a long, narrow buckskin...

TO all good, loyal Americans, the axe is almost a sacred tool, for our greatest American, Abraham Lincoln, was one of our greatest axemen. When he was President of the United St...

NO matter where the old camper may be, no matter how long a time may have elapsed since last he slept in the open, no matter how high or low a social or official position he may...

IF one is going on a real camping excursion where one will need pack horses, one should, by all means, familiarize oneself with the proper method of packing a pack horse. This c...

WHEN choosing a camp site, if possible, choose a forest or grove of young trees. First, because of the shade they give you; secondly, because they protect you from storms, and t...

WHEN the "what-is-its" of Pithecantropus erectus age and other like hob-goblin men were moping around the rough sketch of an earth, there were no camp-fires; the only fire that...

NOW that we have learned about the serious part of camping, hiking and woodcraft, about fire-building, cooking and axe work, we will leave the long trail and the hard trail and...

A PARTY of twenty or thirty men once called at the author's studio and begged that he would go with them on a hike, stating that they intended to cook their dinner out-of-doors....

For if there is anything a dog does love better than its own soul it is to hike with its master, and every normal boy and girl, and every normal man and woman, loves the company...

REAL camp kitchens are naught but well arranged fire-places with rustic cranes and pot-hooks as already described, but in deforested countries, or on the plains and prairies, pi...

MANY people are so accustomed to have other people wait upon them that they are absolutely funny when you meet them in the woods; when their canoe runs its prow up upon the sand...

THE preceding methods of producing fire by friction are not the white man's methods, and are not the methods used by our pioneer ancestors. The only case the writer can remember...

WE know that comparatively few of our boys take their hikes on horseback, especially their camping hikes. But a lot of their daddies and big brothers do take their horse, and th...

THE ceremonies of the Council Fire may be conducted with the accompaniment of pageantry to any extent desirable. At the Council Fire of the Dan Beard Outdoor School, the officer...

OUR GREATEST AXEMAN IMPORTANCE OF THE AXE WHAT KIND OF AXE TO USE HOW TO SWING AN AXE HOW TO REMOVE A BROKEN AXE HANDLE HOW TO TIGHTEN THE HANDLE IN THE HEAD ACCIDENTS THE BRAIN...

HOW TO MAKE A PACK HORSE OF YOUR OWN HOW TO MAKE AN APAREJO HOW TO MAKE A CINCHA HOW TO MAKE A LATIGO HOW TO THROW A DIAMOND HITCH HOW TO THROW A SQUAW HITCH HOW TO HITCH A HORS...

HOW TO LAY AND LIGHT A FIRE AN EXPERIENCE WITH TENDERFEET MODERN FEAR OF DOING MANUAL LABOR MATCHES FIRE-MAKERS AND BABYLONIANS THE PALPITATING HEART OF THE CAMP GUMMY FAGOTS OF...

CHEROKEE INDIAN COUNCIL BARBECUE CAMP MEETING COUNCIL GROUND THE INDIAN PALISADED COUNCIL FIRE INDIAN LEGENDS OF THE FIRE STEALING THE FIRE FROM THE SUN-MAIDENS OF THE EAST MYTH...

'WARE SINGLE TREES OR SMALL GROUPS OF TREES SAFETY IN WOODS OR FOREST KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN FOR GOOD CAMP SITES CROSS STREAMS WHILE CROSSING IS GOOD KEEP TO WINDWARD OF MOSQUITO H...

HIKING DOGS, PACK DOGS HOW TO PACK A DOG HOW TO THROW THE DOG HITCH HOW TO MAKE DOG TRAVOIS DOG AS A BEAST OF BURDEN IN EUROPE AND ARCTIC AMERICA MAN PACKING PACK RATS DON'T FIG...

A PERSONAL EXPERIENCE ON SHORT RATIONS THE MOST PRIMITIVE OF COOKING OUTFITS CAMP POT-HOOKS, THE GALLOW-CROOK, THE POT-CLAW, THE HAKE, THE GIB, THE SPEYGELIA AND THE SASTER TELE...

HOW TO MAKE A FIRE-BOARD, BOW, DRILL AND THIMBLE INDIAN LEGEND OF THE SOURCE OF FIRE RECORD FIRE-MAKERS RUBBING-STICK OUTFIT ESKIMO THIMBLE BOW, BOW-STRING, THIMBLE, FIRE-BOARD,...

CAMP PIT-FIRES, BEAN HOLES COW-BOY FIRE-HOLE CHINOOK COOKING FIRE-HOLE BARBECUE-PITS THE GOLD DIGGER'S OVEN THE FERGUSON CAMP STOVE THE ADOBE OVEN THE ALTAR CAMPFIRE PLACE CAMP...

PORTERS OF THE PORTAGE OLD-TIME INDIAN FIGHTERS AND WILD ANIMALS MODERN STAMPEDE FOR THE OPEN HOW TO GET READY FOR CAMP CUT YOUR FINGER NAILS GO TO YOUR DENTIST GET A HAIR CUT A...

THE WHITE MAN'S METHOD; HOW TO USE FLINT AND STEEL WHERE TO OBTAIN THE FLINT AND STEEL CHUCKNUNCKS, PUNK BOXES, SPUNKS AND MATCHES REAL LUCIFER MATCHES SLOW MATCH HOW TO CATCH T...

HOW TO CHOOSE A SADDLE EVOLUTION OF THE MEXICAN SADDLE BIRTH OF THE BLUFF FRONTED SADDLE THE COWBOY AGE SAWBUCKS OR PACK SADDLES STRAIGHT LEG AND BENT KNEE NAMES OF PARTS OF SAD...

HOW TO MAKE ASH CAKE, PONE, CORN DODGERS, FLAPJACKS, JOHNNY-CAKE, BISCUITS AND DOUGHGOD MAKING DUTCH OVENS VENISON BANQUETS IN THE OPEN HOW TO COOK BEAVER TAIL, PORCUPINES AND M...