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[Illustration: From a painting by Fernand Lungren
_Author of "The Blazed Trail," "The Pass," etc._
_Frontispiece in color by Fernand Lungren and many other illustrations from photographs, etc._
GARDEN CITY NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1911
Copyright, 1906, 1907, by THE OUTING PUBLISHING COMPANY
Entered at Stationers' Hall, London, England.
AFTER considerable weighing of the pros and cons I have decided to include the names of firms where certain supplies may be bought. I realize that this sort of free advertisement is eminently unjust to other worthy houses handling the same lines of goods, but the case is one of self-defense. In _The Forest_ I rashly offered to send to inquirers the name of the firm making a certain kind of tent. At this writing I have received and answered _over eleven hundred_ inquiries. Since the publication of these papers in _The Outing Magazine_, I have received hundreds of requests for information as to where this, that, or the other thing may be had. I have tried to answer them all, but to do so has been a tax on time I would not care to repeat. Therefore I shall try in the following pages to give the reader all the practical information I possess, even though, as stated, I may seem unduly to advertise the certain few business houses with which I have had satisfactory dealings. It is needless to remark that I am interested in none of these firms, and have received no especial favors from them.
CHAPTER PAGE I THE WILDERNESS TRAVELER 3 II COMMON SENSE IN THE WILDERNESS 23 III PERSONAL EQUIPMENT 35 IV PERSONAL EQUIPMENT (_Continued_) 63 V CAMP OUTFIT 79 VI THE COOK OUTFIT 97 VII GRUB 115 VIII CAMP COOKERY 135 IX HORSE OUTFITS 149 X HORSE PACKS 169 XI HORSES, MULES, BURROS 203 XII CANOES 221 INDEX 233
The home of the Red Gods (_Frontispiece_)
On the trail (from a painting by N. C. Wyeth) 16
The Author doing a little washing on his own account 32
"Mountain on mountain towering high, and a valley in between" 48
"We may live without friends, we may live without books, but civilized man cannot live without cooks" 104