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David Abercrombie to Horace Kephart, July 17, 1913, page 1

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David Abercrombie to Horace Kephart, July 17, 1913, page 1

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David Abercrombie to Horace Kephart, July 17, 1913, page 2

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  • DAVID T. ABERCROMBIE, President HIGH GRADE CAMP OUTFITS WATERPROOF AND ROTPROOF TENTS OUTING GARMENTS, FOOTWEAR ARMS. AMMUNITION, FISHING TACKLE OUTFITTERS FOR SPORTSMEN C ABERCROMBI « CAMP E^i Cable Address : CAMPOUTFIT, NEW YORK TELEPHONE CONNECTION AMERICAN AGENT NEWLANO, TARLTON CO. SAFARI OUTFITTERS, NAIROBI. B. E. AFRICA DAVID T. ABERCROMBIE CO. 311 BROADWAY new york, n.y. July 17th, 1913. Mr. Horace Kephart, Bryson City, N.C. My dear Mr. Kephart: I am very glad indeed to have your criticisms. Warren Miller ana I are personal friends and we have had a great many arguments about his Forester's tent, and I have never felt free to advocate it very strongly. I weigh 196 lbs., am not quite as tall as I would like to be, and if I had to camp in a Forester' tent I would be perfectly miserable. Warren Miller weighs from 120 - 130 lbs., and is a little bit of a fellow who can curl up like a dog. we have been out camping together and have argued the tent question by the hour. He has at last admitted that there ought to be a front to hia tent, and as you say, the front he uses now is quite large, in fact it is about l/3rd of the tent, and his original arguments for the use of such a tent are defeated by the use of the front. When we went on our Lumbee trip I preferred two fiat sheets to the Forester's, as so many different styles of protections could be made with them. My so-calied "Snow" tent was 7' square on the ground, I could stand up in it to dres3, and my daughter and I were quite comfortable, whereas in the Forester's tent poor Warren had to sit down to pull his pants on. I am nearly 50, ana that I wont do any more. I want to be comfortable, ana my tent weighed less than half the weight of the Forester's. It is one thing to write about making a tent out of thin cloth and another thing to use one made out of heavy duck. These thin materials are useless as a protection unless you can find yarn goods very closely woven, and you know these are expensive. The hood on the Forester's tent does make it smoke and cuts off a great deal of the heat rays from the outside. I am ^c-% sorry I have no photographs of the "Snow" tent on hand to show y<a, but you can get a pretty good idea of its 3hape from page 12 of our catalogue. The plain, flat, perpendicular front of the canoe tent is substituted in place of the semi-conical front. I made a lot of these for the Government for the Alaskan Boundary Survey, and also for other scientific expeditions during the past four years, and there are about 200 of them in use on such expeditions with the ground cloth in the bottom sewed in permanently, a puckering string tunnel door, and windows, they weigh from 9 3/4 to 10 3/4 lbs. each, and are a perfect protection against insects and rain, and in a pinch they will hold four people As as far as erecting the "Snow" tent is concerned I never failed to use almost any kind of poles and get it up in a third of the time that it took to erext the Forester's. k3
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Horace Kephart

Background and Early Career Horace Kephart was born in 1862 in Pennsylvania, but spent much of his youth in Iowa. He went on to achieve success in two careers. Trained as a...

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