Field and Forest Handy Book

This book introduces young people to the pleasures and challenges of camping. There are any number of projects, plans, and schemes to entertain those whose travels like them into the open fields and forests, who want to know everything from how to build kits and birdhouses to snow houses and snow men. there are chapters on packing a horse, on making clothes and moccasins, on camp cooking, on building piers, boats and sleds. The directions are clear, the diagrams simple, and the activities enticing. The chapters in this book are divided up by seasons of the year.