Travel author Horace Kephart discusses the culture of Appalachia he observed while living in a mountain cabin for several months at the start of the 20th century. This edition contains all of his original photographs.

An honest and eye-opening account of the old Appalachian culture, Our Southern Highlanders attests to rugged yet proud communities well-adapted to the rough terrain. We discover a people who have carved out an existence through sheer grit and persistence; the hardships of mountain life are evident in the worn faces and attire. Though the region is secluded, the inhabitants are by no means cut off - trade is regular, and many locals are descended from Irish, Scots and English immigrants to North America.

Recording conversations and photographing the most noteworthy sights of his stay, Kephart strives to portray the Appalachian region fairly. Although known for his travel writing - a craft usually aimed to encourage and inform potential visitors to a given place - Our Southern Highlanders carries an investigative and journalistic element.

After its release, critics were surprised at how Kephart portrayed the Appalachian way of life in a realistic and honest fashion - in decades prior, the culture had received negative treatment by writers unfamiliar and disaproving. However, Kephart was criticized for focusing overly on the more sensationalist aspects of mountain life - the making of moonshine, for instance, features heavily with stills photographed.

The Deluxe Masterpiece on Outdoors Living, Bushcraft, and Wilderness Travel

This deluxe, unabridged reprint Legacy Edition of Horace Kephart's 1916-1917 Camping And Woodcraft as a combined two volumes in one version has served as the standard for outdoors adventure for many decades after it was published, and continues that legacy today with its timeless knowledge it contains First published in 1921 as a two-volumes-in-one version, this is a significantly expanded version of Kephart's original 1906 work (The Book of Camping and Woodcraft Original Edition). This deluxe expanded version provides hundreds of additional pages of insights, tricks, tips, and skills instruction for thriving in camp and in the wilderness.

This handbook was originally published in two separate volumes due to its size, however is published in a combined volume here in the exact way the 1921 2-in-1 version was published.

In Volume I - Camping, Kephart provides detailed instruction on camping, camp equipment, and outdoor life. This includes setting up your camping gear and outfit, tents, camp equipment, bedding, clothing, how to make your camp, camp fire making, how to dress game and fish, and many old-time recipes perfect for the camp kitchen.

In Volume II - Woodcraft, Kephart provides instruction and advice on travel in the outdoors, nature lore, navigation skills, conquering the biting and stinging pests of the woods, emergencies, knots, and other necessary skills.

This Doublebit Press Legacy Edition continues with this tradition by presenting the original volumes in their exact form as they were published by the now-defunct Outing Publishing Company. Enjoy dozens of vintage line-art illustrations within the book as well, especially in the sections on tents and camp equipment

Enjoy your copy of Camping And Woodcraft for its historical record of the earliest days of recreational camping. Some material, of course, is past its time. However, most of the material is timeless Perhaps you may even learn an old skill or two.

This book makes a perfect gift for camping enthusiasts, outsoorspeople, campers, hunters, bushcrafters, scouts, and historians. This book represents the rich history of the camping tradition, and belongs on the bookshelf of every outdoors enthusiast

A part of the Library of American Outdoors Classics.

This Doublebit Legacy Edition facsimile reprint of Camping And Woodcraft is professionally restored and presented from the exact original source with the highest degree of fidelity possible. Available in both paperback and hardcover, readers can enjoy this Legacy Edition for generations to come and learn from its timeless knowledge for years to come.

About the Doublebit Press Library of American Outdoors Classics

Sometimes we need to remember our history to move forward. Sometimes, remembering our heritage is just fun or inspirational. With technology playing a major role in everyday life, sometimes we need to take a step back in time to find those basic building blocks used for gaining mastery - the things that we have luckily not completely lost and has been recorded in books over the last two centuries. These skills aren't forgotten, they've just been shelved. It's time to unshelve them once again and reclaim the lost knowledge of self-sufficiency

Kephart's original how-to manual for the outdoors This is the original handbook from the master of outdoors instruction. In this Legacy Edition premium reprint of the first version of Kephart's masterwork (in its final fifth edition printing), learn all of the essential, but often forgotten skills of classic camping and outdoors travel, including camping, camp cookery, clothing, hiking and wayfinding, outdoors gear and outfits, beating bugs and the elements, handling emergency situations, woods tools and axemanship, catching your dinner by hunting and fishing, and tanning skins and pelts.

This first version of this book (in its final fifth edition, printed 1912) is the shorter, more concise publication compared to Kephart's later expansion of this work, called Camping and Woodcraft from 1917 (over 800 pages total sold as two volumes combined). Note: This printing is of the fifth edition of the first version (1912), not the first edition (1906). It has been expanded by the author from the previous four editions.

About the Doublebit Press Library of American Outdoors Classics

With technology playing a major role in everyday life, sometimes we need to take a step back in time to find those basic building blocks used for gaining mastery - the things that we have luckily not completely lost and has been recorded in books over the last two centuries. These skills aren't forgotten, they've just been shelved. It's time to unshelve them once again and reclaim the lost knowledge of self-sufficiency.

As a part of the Doublebit Press Library of American Outdoors Classics, this Legacy Edition volume is reprinted in the exact form as it was presented in the original publication. Great care has been taken by the publishing team to preserve this work with clean images, clear text, and high-quality photographic editing.

For outdoors enthusiasts who demand the best from their equipment, this Doublebit Press Legacy Edition reprint was made with you in mind. Both important and minor details have equally both been accounted for by our publishing staff, down to the cover, font, layout, and images. It is the goal of Doublebit Legacy Edition series to preserve outdoors heritage, but also be cherished as collectible pieces, worthy of collection in any outdoorsperson's library and that can be passed to future generations.

Every book selected to be in this series offers unique views and instruction on important skills, advice, tips, tidbits, anecdotes, stories, and experiences that will enrichen the repertoire of any person who enjoys escaping the city and finding their way to the trails of the wilds. To learn the most basic building blocks of outdoors life leads to mastery of all its aspects. This book is an important contribution to the early American recreational outdoors literature and has important historical and collector value toward preserving the American outdoors tradition.

The goal of the Library of American Outdoors Classics is to preserve and share the works from forgotten teachers of outdoors life that form the cornerstone of the history of the American outdoors. Through remastered reprint editions of timeless classics of outdoor recreation, perhaps lost knowledge can be regained for future generations. The books in this library have been chosen because much of the basic skills and knowledge they contain have been forgotten or put to the wayside in lieu of more modern conveniences and methods. This volume is worth close study as well as collection by outdoors folk in the modern era of outdoors and traditional skills life.

2020 Reprint of the 1921 Two Volume Expanded Edition. Nearly 900 pages with numerous illustrations. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. The first volume was originally published in 1906 as The Book of Camping and Woodcraft. Kephart expanded the work into two volumes in 1916. This is the expanded edition in its entirety. Camping and Woodcraft ranks sixth among the ten best-selling sporting books of all time. The subtitle is: A Handbook for Vacation Campers and for Travelers in the Wilderness, and it covers all aspects of this experience encyclopedically. A standard manual for campers and a veritable outdoor enthusiast's bible for over four decades, this book reflects Horace Kephart's practical knowledge and covers, in depth, any problem that campers might confront.

Contents: Volume I: Camping. Vacation time -- Outfitting -- Tents for fixed camps -- Furniture, tools, and utensils for fixed camps -- Tents for shifting camps -- Types of light tents -- Light camp equipment -- Camp bedding -- Clothing -- Personal kits -- Provisions -- Camp making -- The camp-fire -- Pests of the woods -- Dressing and keeping game and fish -- Camp cookery, meats -- Camp cookery, game -- Camp cookery, fish and shellfish -- Camp cookery, cured meats, etc., eggs -- Camp cookery, breadstuffs and cereals -- Camp cookery, vegetables, soups -- Beverages and desserts -- Cook's miscellany -- Index --

Volume II: Woodcraft. Woodcraft -- Getting lost, bivouacs -- Pathfinding -- Nature's guide posts -- Blazes, survey lines, use of the compass --Route sketching, mapping, measuring -- Trips afoot -- Packs for pedestrians -- How to walk, a hunter's pack, going alone -- Concentrated foods -- Marksmanship in the woods -- Axemanship, qualities and utilization of wood -- Tomahawk, shelters, axeman's camps, caches, masked camps -- Cabin building, rustic furniture -- Bark utensils, bast ropes and twine, root and vine cordage, withes and splits -- Knots, hitches and lashings -- Trophies, pelts, buckskin, and rawhide -- Tanning skins, other animal products -- Cave exploration -- Bee hunting -- Edible plants of the wilderness -- Living off the country, in extremis -- Accidents and emergencies: their backwoods treatment -- Index.

Kephart lived in the Great Smoky Mountains and spent most of his time in the wild. Consequently, he became an expert on all aspects of camp life from living in a semi-permanent lean-to to traveling with only the bare essentials in a backpack. More than simply a hunting or fishing guide, Kephart's book covers a wide variety of subjects from how to dress game and fish to how to shoot accurately. Every chapter is filled with tips that remain useful even after many years of improvements in equipment and technology.

The Deluxe Masterpiece on Outdoors Living, Bushcraft, and Wilderness Travel

This deluxe, unabridged reprint Legacy Edition of Horace Kephart's 1916-1917 Camping And Woodcraft as a combined two volumes in one version has served as the standard for outdoors adventure for many decades after it was published, and continues that legacy today with its timeless knowledge it contains First published in 1921 as a two-volumes-in-one version, this is a significantly expanded version of Kephart's original 1906 work (The Book of Camping and Woodcraft Original Edition). This deluxe expanded version provides hundreds of additional pages of insights, tricks, tips, and skills instruction for thriving in camp and in the wilderness.

This handbook was originally published in two separate volumes due to its size, however is published in a combined volume here in the exact way the 1921 2-in-1 version was published.

In Volume I - Camping, Kephart provides detailed instruction on camping, camp equipment, and outdoor life. This includes setting up your camping gear and outfit, tents, camp equipment, bedding, clothing, how to make your camp, camp fire making, how to dress game and fish, and many old-time recipes perfect for the camp kitchen.

In Volume II - Woodcraft, Kephart provides instruction and advice on travel in the outdoors, nature lore, navigation skills, conquering the biting and stinging pests of the woods, emergencies, knots, and other necessary skills.

This Doublebit Press Legacy Edition continues with this tradition by presenting the original volumes in their exact form as they were published by the now-defunct Outing Publishing Company. Enjoy dozens of vintage line-art illustrations within the book as well, especially in the sections on tents and camp equipment

Enjoy your copy of Camping And Woodcraft for its historical record of the earliest days of recreational camping. Some material, of course, is past its time. However, most of the material is timeless Perhaps you may even learn an old skill or two.

This book makes a perfect gift for camping enthusiasts, outsoorspeople, campers, hunters, bushcrafters, scouts, and historians. This book represents the rich history of the camping tradition, and belongs on the bookshelf of every outdoors enthusiast

A part of the Library of American Outdoors Classics.

This Doublebit Legacy Edition facsimile reprint of Camping And Woodcraft is professionally restored and presented from the exact original source with the highest degree of fidelity possible. Available in both paperback and hardcover, readers can enjoy this Legacy Edition for generations to come and learn from its timeless knowledge for years to come.

About the Doublebit Press Library of American Outdoors Classics

As a part of the Doublebit Press Library of American Outdoors Classics, this unabridged Legacy Edition volume is reprinted in the exact form as it was presented in the original publication. Both important and minor details have equally both been accounted for by our publishing staff, down to the cover, font, layout, and images. It is the goal of Doublebit Legacy Edition series to preserve outdoors heritage, but also be cherished as collectible pieces, worthy of collection in any outdoorsperson's library and that can be passed to future generations.

Kephart's Personal Recipe Book and Technique Manual for Camp Kitchen

This deluxe unabridged reprint Legacy Edition of Horace Kephart's Camp Cookery is a must-have for the camp kitchen, detailing dozens of recipes for outdoorsers, hunters, camp cooks, and anyone who wants a taste of the trail at home. Originally published in 1910, the author of the classic title The Book of Camping and Woodcraft presents readers with recipes and camp kitchen techniques that remain fully relevant for today's modern campsite or hunting camp

This comprehensive cookbook for the camp and cabin includes information on food and vittles for even the most beginner camp cooks. Topics include provisioning and buying food for your camp kitchen, utensils and equipment you'll need for your kitchen, how to cook with fire and the different types of cooking fires, how to dress and keep game and fish for the camp, as well as dozens of recipes for meat, game, fish, shellfish, cured meats, eggs, bread, vegetables, soups, beverages, and desserts.

This vintage book includes timeless knowledge about camp life and the most important role of the camp kitchen to keep everyone well fed Although this book represents thought from a former time, it also reveals much about the rich history of camping and the wilderness, and many of the tips, tricks, and discussions are still relevant for study today

A part of the Library of American Outdoor Classics: Volume 24

This Doublebit Legacy Edition reprint of Camp Cookery is professionally restored and presented from the original source, including inspiration from the book's original cover, with the highest degree of fidelity possible. Readers can enjoy this Legacy Edition for generations to come and learn from its timeless knowledge.

About the Doublebit Press Legacy Editions

Sometimes we need to remember our history to move forward. Sometimes, remembering our heritage is just fun or inspirational. With technology playing a major role in everyday life, sometimes we need to take a step back in time to find those basic building blocks used for gaining mastery - the things that we have luckily not completely lost and has been recorded in books over the last two centuries. These skills aren't forgotten, they've just been shelved. It's time to unshelve them once again and reclaim the lost knowledge of self-sufficiency

As a part of the Doublebit Press Legacy Edition Collection, this unabridged volume is reprinted in the exact form as it was presented in the original publication. Both important and minor details have equally both been accounted for by our publishing staff, down to the cover, font, layout, and images. It is the goal of Doublebit Legacy Edition series to preserve outdoors heritage, but also be cherished as collectible pieces, worthy of collection in any handcrafter's or outdoorsperson's library and that can be passed to future generations.

The Deluxe Masterpiece on Outdoors Living, Bushcraft, and Wilderness Travel

This deluxe, unabridged reprint Legacy Edition of Horace Kephart's 1916 Camping And Woodcraft - Volume I served as THE standard for outdoors adventure for many decades after it was published, and continues that legacy today with its timeless knowledge it contains First published in 1916, this is an expanded version of Kephart's original 1906 work (The Book of Camping and Woodcraft Original Edition). This deluxe expanded version provides hundreds of additional pages of insights, tricks, tips, and skills instruction for thriving in camp and in the wilderness.

In Volume I - Camping, Kephart provides detailed instruction on camping, camp equipment, and outdoor life. This includes setting up your camping gear and outfit, tents, camp equipment, bedding, clothing, how to make your camp, camp fire making, how to dress game and fish, and many old-time recipes perfect for the camp kitchen. Enjoy dozens of vintage line-art illustrations within the book as well, especially in the sections on tents and camp equipment

This handbook was originally published in two volumes due to its size (see Camping And Woodcraft - Volume II - Woodcraft). Volume II - Woodcraft contains instruction and advice on travel in the outdoors, nature lore, navigation skills, conquering the biting and stinging pests of the woods, emergencies, knots, and other necessary skills. This Doublebit Press Legacy Edition continues with that tradition by presenting the original volumes in their exact form as they were published by the now-defunct Outing Publishing Company. To have a complete set, readers will need to purchase Volume II as well.

Enjoy your copy of Camping And Woodcraft - Volume I for its historical record of the earliest days of recreational camping. Some material, of course, is past its time. However, most of the material is timeless Perhaps you may even learn an old skill or two.

This book makes a perfect gift for camping enthusiasts, outsoorspeople, campers, hunters, bushcrafters, scouts, and historians. This book represents the rich history of the camping tradition, and belongs on the bookshelf of every outdoors enthusiast

A part of the Library of American Outdoors Classics: Volume 19

This Doublebit Legacy Edition reprint of Camping And Woodcraft is professionally restored and presented from the original source with the highest degree of fidelity possible. Available in both paperback and hardcover, readers can enjoy this Legacy Edition for generations to come and learn from its timeless knowledge for years to come.

About the Doublebit Press Library of American Outdoors Classics

Sometimes we need to remember our history to move forward. Sometimes, remembering our heritage is just fun or inspirational. With technology playing a major role in everyday life, sometimes we need to take a step back in time to find those basic building blocks used for gaining mastery - the things that we have luckily not completely lost and has been recorded in books over the last two centuries. These skills aren't forgotten, they've just been shelved. It's time to unshelve them once again and reclaim the lost knowledge of self-sufficiency

As a part of the Doublebit Press Library of American Outdoors Classics, this unabridged Legacy Edition volume is reprinted in the exact form as it was presented in the original publication. Both important and minor details have equally both been accounted for by our publishing staff, down to the cover, font, layout, and images. It is the goal of Doublebit Legacy Edition series to preserve outdoors heritage, but also be cherished as collectible pieces.

NOTE: This description is for the 2011 reprint with the green and black cover, NOT the 2012 reprint with the brown cover published by RareBooksClub.com. This 2011 edition is an EXACT reprint of the 1910 edition, and reproduces the original layout and illustrations perfectly. There IS NO gibberish or poorly OCR'd text in the one with the green and black cover.

Your thoroughbred camper likes not the attentions of a landlord, nor will he suffer himself to be rooted to the soil by cares of ownership or lease. It is not possession of the land, but of the landscape, that enjoys; and as for that, all the wild parts of the earth are his, by a title that carries with it no obligation but that he shall not desecrate nor lay them waste.

H. Kephart

Intended as the definitive pocket field guide for the turn of the 20th Century woodsman and camper, the The Book of Camping & Woodcraft was originally published in 1906. This particular Heritage Edition appears as it was on the second reprinting in 1910. In 1916, Kephart dramatically expanded the book into two volumes to include wagon camping and semi-permanent base camp construction. These are the equivalent of modern car camping - just a couple of notches down from a motel stay. The 1910 edition is the purest of all the editions of The Book of Camping and Woodcraft.

Fully illustrated with photographs and diagrams and packed with woodcraft lore, this book is a must-have for any rugged outdoorsman or bushcraft or classic camping enthusiast.

Kephart's original how-to manual for the outdoors

This is the original handbook from the master of outdoors instruction. In this Legacy Edition premium reprint of the first version of Kephart's masterwork (in its final fifth edition printing), learn all of the essential, but often forgotten skills of classic camping and outdoors travel, including camping, camp cookery, clothing, hiking and wayfinding, outdoors gear and outfits, beating bugs and the elements, handling emergency situations, woods tools and axemanship, catching your dinner by hunting and fishing, and tanning skins and pelts.

This first version of this book (in its final fifth edition, printed 1912) is the shorter, more concise publication compared to Kephart's later expansion of this work, called Camping and Woodcraft from 1917 (over 800 pages total sold as two volumes combined). Note: This printing is of the fifth edition of the first version (1912), not the first edition (1906). It has been expanded by the author from the previous four editions.

About the Doublebit Press Library of American Outdoors Classics

With technology playing a major role in everyday life, sometimes we need to take a step back in time to find those basic building blocks used for gaining mastery - the things that we have luckily not completely lost and has been recorded in books over the last two centuries. These skills aren't forgotten, they've just been shelved. It's time to unshelve them once again and reclaim the lost knowledge of self-sufficiency.

As a part of the Doublebit Press Library of American Outdoors Classics, this Legacy Edition volume is reprinted in the exact form as it was presented in the original publication. Great care has been taken by the publishing team to preserve this work with clean images, clear text, and high-quality photographic editing.

For outdoors enthusiasts who demand the best from their equipment, this Doublebit Press Legacy Edition reprint was made with you in mind. Both important and minor details have equally both been accounted for by our publishing staff, down to the cover, font, layout, and images. It is the goal of Doublebit Legacy Edition series to preserve outdoors heritage, but also be cherished as collectible pieces, worthy of collection in any outdoorsperson's library and that can be passed to future generations.

Every book selected to be in this series offers unique views and instruction on important skills, advice, tips, tidbits, anecdotes, stories, and experiences that will enrichen the repertoire of any person who enjoys escaping the city and finding their way to the trails of the wilds. To learn the most basic building blocks of outdoors life leads to mastery of all its aspects. This book is an important contribution to the early American recreational outdoors literature and has important historical and collector value toward preserving the American outdoors tradition.

The goal of the Library of American Outdoors Classics is to preserve and share the works from forgotten teachers of outdoors life that form the cornerstone of the history of the American outdoors. Through remastered reprint editions of timeless classics of outdoor recreation, perhaps lost knowledge can be regained for future generations. The books in this library have been chosen because much of the basic skills and knowledge they contain have been forgotten or put to the wayside in lieu of more modern conveniences and methods. This volume is worth close study as well as collection by outdoors folk in the modern era of outdoors and traditional skills life.

The Deluxe Masterpiece on Outdoors Living, Bushcraft, and Wilderness Travel

This deluxe, unabridged reprint Legacy Edition of Horace Kephart's 1916 Camping And Woodcraft - Volume II served as THE standard for outdoors adventure for many decades after it was published, and continues that legacy today with its timeless knowledge it contains First published in 1916, this is an expanded version of Kephart's original 1906 work (The Book of Camping and Woodcraft Original Edition). This deluxe expanded version provides hundreds of additional pages of insights, tricks, tips, and skills instruction for thriving in camp and in the wilderness.

In Volume II - Woodcraft, Kephart provides detailed instruction on making your way in the wilderness and the lore of the woods. This includes nature lore and how to read nature and the various signs it shows, how to use trail blazes, how to sketch maps, types of backpacks, proper hiking technique for wilderness travel, marksmanship, woods tools and axemanship, log cabin building, knots, hitches, and rope, how to skin and dress trophy game, cave exploration, bee hunting, edible plants, living off the land, and how to handle accidents and emergencies.

This handbook was originally published in two volumes due to its size (see Camping And Woodcraft - Volume I - Camping). Volume I - Camping contains valuable instruction and advice on camping equipment, setting up camp, and camp cookery. This Doublebit Press Legacy Edition continues with that tradition by presenting the original volumes in their exact form as they were published by the now-defunct Outing Publishing Company. To have a complete set, readers will need to purchase Volume II as well.

Enjoy your copy of Camping And Woodcraft - Volume II for its historical record of the earliest days of recreational camping. Some material, of course, is past its time. However, most of the material is timeless Perhaps you may even learn an old skill or two.

This book makes a perfect gift for camping enthusiasts, outsoorspeople, campers, hunters, bushcrafters, scouts, and historians. This book represents the rich history of the camping tradition, and belongs on the bookshelf of every outdoors enthusiast

A part of the Library of American Outdoors Classics: Volume 20

This Doublebit Legacy Edition reprint of Camping And Woodcraft is professionally restored and presented from the original source with the highest degree of fidelity possible. Available in both paperback and hardcover, readers can enjoy this Legacy Edition for generations to come and learn from its timeless knowledge for years to come.

About the Doublebit Press Library of American Outdoors Classics

Sometimes we need to remember our history to move forward. Sometimes, remembering our heritage is just fun or inspirational. With technology playing a major role in everyday life, sometimes we need to take a step back in time to find those basic building blocks used for gaining mastery - the things that we have luckily not completely lost and has been recorded in books over the last two centuries. These skills aren't forgotten, they've just been shelved. It's time to unshelve them once again and reclaim the lost knowledge of self-sufficiency

As a part of the Doublebit Press Library of American Outdoors Classics, this unabridged Legacy Edition volume is reprinted in the exact form as it was presented in the original publication. Both important and minor details have equally both been accounted for by our publishing staff, down to the cover, font, layout, and images. It is the goal of Doublebit Legacy Edition series to preserve outdoors heritage, but also be cherished as collectible pieces.

A Classic Handbook for Hunting Firearms Maintenance, Mechanics, and Use

This unabridged reprint Legacy Edition of Horace Kephart's Sporting Firearms is a classic handbook on shotgun and rifle shooting mechanics for hunting and field sports. Originally published in 1912, the author of the famous Book of Camping and Woodcraft discusses maintenance and use of firearms for hunting, as well as multiple tips and tricks to make the most out of your hunting field trip. Over 100 years old, this antique manual is a wonderful study on the long-lived history of hunting, target shooting, marksmanship.

This comprehensive guidebook for outdoors enthusiasts and hunters includes chapters on rifles and shotguns for the field, hunting technique and etiquette, the physics of firearms and their mechanisms and construction, sights, shot patterns, gauges and weights, and general operation and maintenance. Every hunter and target marksman will find this historic study worth reading, despite its age

This vintage book includes timeless knowledge about hunting and life outdoors. Although this book represents thought from a former time, it also reveals much about the rich history of outdoors recreation, and many of the tips, tricks, and discussions are still relevant for study today

A part of The Classic Outing Handbooks Collection: Volume 16

This Doublebit Legacy Edition reprint of Sporting Firearms is professionally restored and presented from the original source, including inspiration from the book's original cover, with the highest degree of fidelity possible. Readers can enjoy this Legacy Edition for generations to come and learn from its timeless knowledge.

About the Doublebit Press Legacy Editions

Sometimes we need to remember our history to move forward. Sometimes, remembering our heritage is just fun or inspirational. With technology playing a major role in everyday life, sometimes we need to take a step back in time to find those basic building blocks used for gaining mastery - the things that we have luckily not completely lost and has been recorded in books over the last two centuries. These skills aren't forgotten, they've just been shelved. It's time to unshelve them once again and reclaim the lost knowledge of self-sufficiency

As a part of the Doublebit Press Legacy Edition Collection, this unabridged volume is reprinted in the exact form as it was presented in the original publication. Both important and minor details have equally both been accounted for by our publishing staff, down to the cover, font, layout, and images. It is the goal of Doublebit Legacy Edition series to preserve outdoors heritage, but also be cherished as collectible pieces, worthy of collection in any handcrafter's or outdoorsperson's library and that can be passed to future generations.

Travel author Horace Kephart discusses the culture of Appalachia he observed while living in a mountain cabin for several months at the start of the 20th century. This edition contains all of his original photographs.

An honest and eye-opening account of the old Appalachian culture, Our Southern Highlanders attests to rugged yet proud communities well-adapted to the rough terrain. We discover a people who have carved out an existence through sheer grit and persistence; the hardships of mountain life are evident in the worn faces and attire. Though the region is secluded, the inhabitants are by no means cut off - trade is regular, and many locals are descended from Irish, Scots and English immigrants to North America.

Recording conversations and photographing the most noteworthy sights of his stay, Kephart strives to portray the Appalachian region fairly. Although known for his travel writing - a craft usually aimed to encourage and inform potential visitors to a given place - Our Southern Highlanders carries an investigative and journalistic element.

After its release, critics were surprised at how Kephart portrayed the Appalachian way of life in a realistic and honest fashion - in decades prior, the culture had received negative treatment by writers unfamiliar and disaproving. However, Kephart was criticized for focusing overly on the more sensationalist aspects of mountain life - the making of moonshine, for instance, features heavily with stills photographed.

The Deluxe Masterpiece on Outdoors Living, Bushcraft, and Wilderness Travel

This deluxe, unabridged reprint Legacy Edition of Horace Kephart's 1916 Camping And Woodcraft - Volume II served as THE standard for outdoors adventure for many decades after it was published, and continues that legacy today with its timeless knowledge it contains First published in 1916, this is an expanded version of Kephart's original 1906 work (The Book of Camping and Woodcraft Original Edition). This deluxe expanded version provides hundreds of additional pages of insights, tricks, tips, and skills instruction for thriving in camp and in the wilderness.

In Volume II - Woodcraft, Kephart provides detailed instruction on making your way in the wilderness and the lore of the woods. This includes nature lore and how to read nature and the various signs it shows, how to use trail blazes, how to sketch maps, types of backpacks, proper hiking technique for wilderness travel, marksmanship, woods tools and axemanship, log cabin building, knots, hitches, and rope, how to skin and dress trophy game, cave exploration, bee hunting, edible plants, living off the land, and how to handle accidents and emergencies.

This handbook was originally published in two volumes due to its size (see Camping And Woodcraft - Volume I - Camping). Volume I - Camping contains valuable instruction and advice on camping equipment, setting up camp, and camp cookery. This Doublebit Press Legacy Edition continues with that tradition by presenting the original volumes in their exact form as they were published by the now-defunct Outing Publishing Company. To have a complete set, readers will need to purchase Volume II as well.

Enjoy your copy of Camping And Woodcraft - Volume II for its historical record of the earliest days of recreational camping. Some material, of course, is past its time. However, most of the material is timeless Perhaps you may even learn an old skill or two.

This book makes a perfect gift for camping enthusiasts, outsoorspeople, campers, hunters, bushcrafters, scouts, and historians. This book represents the rich history of the camping tradition, and belongs on the bookshelf of every outdoors enthusiast

A part of the Library of American Outdoors Classics: Volume 20

This Doublebit Legacy Edition reprint of Camping And Woodcraft is professionally restored and presented from the original source with the highest degree of fidelity possible. Available in both paperback and hardcover, readers can enjoy this Legacy Edition for generations to come and learn from its timeless knowledge for years to come.

About the Doublebit Press Library of American Outdoors Classics

Sometimes we need to remember our history to move forward. Sometimes, remembering our heritage is just fun or inspirational. With technology playing a major role in everyday life, sometimes we need to take a step back in time to find those basic building blocks used for gaining mastery - the things that we have luckily not completely lost and has been recorded in books over the last two centuries. These skills aren't forgotten, they've just been shelved. It's time to unshelve them once again and reclaim the lost knowledge of self-sufficiency

As a part of the Doublebit Press Library of American Outdoors Classics, this unabridged Legacy Edition volume is reprinted in the exact form as it was presented in the original publication. Both important and minor details have equally both been accounted for by our publishing staff, down to the cover, font, layout, and images. It is the goal of Doublebit Legacy Edition series to preserve outdoors heritage, but also be cherished as collectible pieces.

The Deluxe Masterpiece on Outdoors Living, Bushcraft, and Wilderness Travel

This deluxe, unabridged reprint Legacy Edition of Horace Kephart's 1916 Camping And Woodcraft - Volume I served as THE standard for outdoors adventure for many decades after it was published, and continues that legacy today with its timeless knowledge it contains First published in 1916, this is an expanded version of Kephart's original 1906 work (The Book of Camping and Woodcraft Original Edition). This deluxe expanded version provides hundreds of additional pages of insights, tricks, tips, and skills instruction for thriving in camp and in the wilderness.

In Volume I - Camping, Kephart provides detailed instruction on camping, camp equipment, and outdoor life. This includes setting up your camping gear and outfit, tents, camp equipment, bedding, clothing, how to make your camp, camp fire making, how to dress game and fish, and many old-time recipes perfect for the camp kitchen. Enjoy dozens of vintage line-art illustrations within the book as well, especially in the sections on tents and camp equipment

This handbook was originally published in two volumes due to its size (see Camping And Woodcraft - Volume II - Woodcraft). Volume II - Woodcraft contains instruction and advice on travel in the outdoors, nature lore, navigation skills, conquering the biting and stinging pests of the woods, emergencies, knots, and other necessary skills. This Doublebit Press Legacy Edition continues with that tradition by presenting the original volumes in their exact form as they were published by the now-defunct Outing Publishing Company. To have a complete set, readers will need to purchase Volume II as well.

Enjoy your copy of Camping And Woodcraft - Volume I for its historical record of the earliest days of recreational camping. Some material, of course, is past its time. However, most of the material is timeless Perhaps you may even learn an old skill or two.

This book makes a perfect gift for camping enthusiasts, outsoorspeople, campers, hunters, bushcrafters, scouts, and historians. This book represents the rich history of the camping tradition, and belongs on the bookshelf of every outdoors enthusiast

A part of the Library of American Outdoors Classics: Volume 19

This Doublebit Legacy Edition reprint of Camping And Woodcraft is professionally restored and presented from the original source with the highest degree of fidelity possible. Available in both paperback and hardcover, readers can enjoy this Legacy Edition for generations to come and learn from its timeless knowledge for years to come.

About the Doublebit Press Library of American Outdoors Classics

Sometimes we need to remember our history to move forward. Sometimes, remembering our heritage is just fun or inspirational. With technology playing a major role in everyday life, sometimes we need to take a step back in time to find those basic building blocks used for gaining mastery - the things that we have luckily not completely lost and has been recorded in books over the last two centuries. These skills aren't forgotten, they've just been shelved. It's time to unshelve them once again and reclaim the lost knowledge of self-sufficiency

As a part of the Doublebit Press Library of American Outdoors Classics, this unabridged Legacy Edition volume is reprinted in the exact form as it was presented in the original publication. Both important and minor details have equally both been accounted for by our publishing staff, down to the cover, font, layout, and images. It is the goal of Doublebit Legacy Edition series to preserve outdoors heritage, but also be cherished as collectible pieces.

Camp Cookery is Horace Kephart's turn of the 20th Century classic on the art of campfire cookery.

Cooking on a campfire is largely a matter of proper fires and heat control, proper materials and methods which will imbue each dish with its own unique and characteristic flavor.

Once you master proper camp cookery you'll never go back to pre-packaged meals while you're in the woods.

Ditch the Mountain House freeze dried slop or the ramen noodles and get back to basics.

It doesn't take years of practise to cook mouth-watering meals while camping. All it takes is good, wholesome ingredients, a good fire, and a willingness to learn from Horace Kephart, a master in the art of camp cookery.

The interior of this new edition from Ropesend Creek Press is a perfect replica of the original. Page numbering, illustrations, layout, table of contents, index and any footnotes are exactly as they appeared when the original book was published. With this new edition, the book is ready for a new lease of life through a modern readership.