Chapter I: Preface

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.

CONTENTS

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

ILLUSTRATIONS

The home of the Red Gods (_Frontispiece_)

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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

One of the mishaps to be expected 64

"Bed in the bush with stars to see" 80

"We may live without friends, we may live without
books, but civilized man cannot live without
cooks" 104

When you quit the trail for a day's rest 120

In the heat of the day's struggle 144

Nearing a crest and in sight of game 160

A downward journey 176

In mid-day the shade of the pines is inviting 208

Getting ready for another day of it 224