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Correspondence: George Kephart to Michael Frome

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  • * £ TJ + t. « t * °*t?*~* o *7>*2*2*2ji*2L*2*2*~*2'|'.a*.2.* ° * ° * ~w&*~+ °*£t*~*~*~* 5* ° * n* ''*2 ______ ~. — — ~ A , .— — -.*—_ — _ _ _ _ _ | BOOKMAN'S I Trail-Blazer At "-the Back of Beyond!1 | -BSIEPCASS | During that decade of my | — | more athletic (though, scarcely less Edited by A. P.' Sweet I Dookjsh) youth when I progressed in 2 Box ^74- Drvdpn w T 2 aSe froi:: seven to seventeen, my , jsox p/v, jjxyaen, i\.x. , father and I used to go on summer- | No. 81. November,1965 % vacation canoe-trips in the Quetico 2*2*2*2*0*2*2*2*2*3*2*2*2*2 Reservation of Canada, and on week- ~ ~ ~ ~ "" * " end hiking and camping trips around various parts of Wisconsin, carrying all of our equipment and provisions in packs on our "backs. For all such ventures in "roughing it", Father's indispensable companion, guide arid authority. was the one-volume reference library by Horace Kephart, entitled: "Camping and Woodcraft." Published first in 1906 by the Outing Publishing Co., as, "The Book of Camping and Woodcraft: a guidebook for those who travel in the wilderness," this compendium appeared in seven editions during its first ten years. By that time, with accretions, it had grown to such size that the original publisher issued it in a two-volume edition, in 1916-17. Then, in 1921, a "new edition" of the two volumes in one was published by the Macmillan Company, as: "Camping and Woodcraft: a handbook for vacation campers &. for travelers in the wilderness." It was in this form that we used it; and in this form, with copyright renewed in 194-7, it is still in print today, list &6.95« Kephart's manual, conceived, executed and perfected at a time when "camping" had not yet become the motorized, civilized, luxurious, mobile-home-^-in-the-woods pastime that it is today, afforded the neophyte or "greenhorn" in the wilderness all the basic information he required*": advice on what to take along - and what to leave behind; instructions on where and how to make camp and the art of building a camp-fire; counsel on how to uake care , of yourself and find your v/ay in uncharted country; suggestions for meal preparation (including recipes for such dishes as "snits ^j und-knepp", jambalaya, and slumgullion); tips on living off the .^country, with an 18-page table of wilderness edible plants;,, chapiters on axemanship, accidents (first-aid), insect pests,..-arid sun- ^ dry other topics of interest and use to the outdoorsman. But, § while it was the need for this practical lore which attracted my > father to "Kephart College" in the ..ficst^plerce, I am certain that > the tutorial bond was strengthened by~an awareness of kindred Nsspirit and an appreciation of the value judgments and moral ad- -5 monitions with which the text was interlarded: such lines as, L "Be plain in the woods. In a far way you are emulating | . . .those grim heroes of the past who made the white man's "v.^-.~' ■ trails across this continent. Fancy Boone reclining on t{^;"' an air mattress, or Carson pottering over a sheet-iron ^\ stove! We seek the woods to escape civilization for a ^ time, and all that suggests it. Let us sometimes broil •,-^.vi •«.*•• pur venison on a sharpened stick and serve it on a sheet • ^!" c.'' of bark. It tastes better. It gets us closer to na- • j*\ .•-.;»: tn^e, and closer to those good old times when every <v^'i•■*-'- American was considered 'a man for a' that' if he proved '*-*£ "' "" ^ ^n a narL-ui T"ay- And there is a pleasure in achiev- •*>■■•'■ .1. i?S creditable results by the simplest means. When you ••^5 ••• win your own way through the wilds with axe and rifle r^ you win at the same time the imperturbability of a mind
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This digital collection was created to contribute to the public's understanding of the forces and ideas that led to the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 1934. The most vi...

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