Camping and Woodcraft is an American classic published by Horace Kephart in 1916, detailing the practical skill-sets needed to endure the harsh conditions of the wilderness, and to make that experience more enjoyable to the amateur outdoorsman.
The work is a revised and expanded edition of Kephart's 1906 Camping and Woodcraft, a pocket-manual published by the author with the expressed purpose of rendering practical advice and skills to those who travel with minimal gear in places where there are no roads.
[16] Kephart occasionally draws upon his familiarity with the survival skills of the Native American Indians: Genuine Indian-tanned buckskin is, properly speaking, not tanned at all.
In color and pliability it is somewhat like what is called chamois skin, but it is far stronger and has the singular property that although it shrinks some after wetting and gets stiff in drying, it can easily be made soft as ever by merely rubbing it in the hands.
[17]The Boston Evening Transcript's review compared Camping and Woodcraft to a textbook in terms of completeness, and concluded that it is an "invaluable" resource for outdoor enthusiasts.