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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