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Robert E. Pinkerton to Horace Kephart, November 21, 1913, page 2

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Item 1 - Robert E. Pinkerton to Horace Kephart, November 21, 1913, page 1
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Robert E. Pinkerton to Horace Kephart, November 21, 1913, page 1

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Robert E. Pinkerton to Horace Kephart, November 21, 1913, page 2

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Item 3 - Robert E. Pinkerton to Horace Kephart, November 21, 1913, page 3
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Robert E. Pinkerton to Horace Kephart, November 21, 1913, page 3

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  • -2- The pails make the best bean pots 1 ever saw as all sand and dirt is excluded perfectly. In this country, where the packsack is used almost exclusively, theyfit well in the pack and occupy comparatively little space. The smallest kettle, filled with lunch and carried in a bag tied to the waist behind, makes the best tea kettle for one-meal trips I have seen. Please pardon my delay in answering your letter, but, at this time of year, with the small streams and bays frozen since October 19, and ice forming on the paddles and clothing on the big lakes, we seldom go to town for our mail. It's a seventeen-mile paddle, and the big lake on which we live remains open until the temperature reaches fifteen or twenty below. I hope to be able to mail this within the next week. Mrs. Pinkerton and I have just begun at the bottom of the ladder you climbed so long ago, and it is impossible for us to express our feelings upon receiving so kind a hail from the top, (We are 150 miles from the nearest typewriter repair shop, and a bent 2nair pin makes a poor spring for that lever. )The night before your letter came I told her she should read your "Sporting Firearms," as she does most of the shooting for our table, while "Camp Cookery," which Mr. Britt sent us a year ago, has been' in daily use. "Kephart says," begins all her discussions of foods. If the Winters are too mild in the Smokies, travel up our way. We have lots of room, a fireplace, a heater and a cookstove, and there is any amount of wood. We live here the year round, neighborless but perfectly happy, and we would be gl**d to see you at any time. We are in hopes that the caribou will get a little farther south this winter, not that we want a head, but that we may change off from moose and red doer. Our only conservation principle is to make use of all we kill and not knock down 1,200 pounds of meat and cut &ff a hind leg. If your ideas are
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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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