| Over-night camp | [Frontispiece] |
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| One can generally pass around obstructions like this on the trail | [5] |
| Difficulties of the Adirondack trail | [9] |
| Blazing the trail by bending down and breaking branches | [11] |
| Returning to camp by the blazed trail | [13] |
| Footprints of animals | [17] |
| Footprints of animals | [19] |
| Ink impressions of leaves | [23] |
| Ink impressions of leaves | [24] |
| Ink impressions of leaves | [25] |
| Pitch-pine and cone | [26] |
| Sycamore leaf and fruit of sycamore | [26] |
| How to use the axe | [29] |
| The compass and the North Star | [37] |
| A permanent camp | [49] |
| Outdoor shelters | [51] |
| Dining-tent, handy racks, and log bedstead | [53] |
| A forest camp by the water | [55] |
| In camp | [57] |
| The bough-bed, the cook-fire, and the wall-tent | [59] |
| Soft wood | [63] |
| Hard wood | [65] |
| Bringing wood for the fire | [69] |
| Camp fires and camp sanitation | [81] |
| Trailers' outfits | [87] |
| The head-net and blanket-roll | [91] |
| Some things to carry and how to carry them | [101] |
| Handicraft in the woods | [107] |
| Outdoor dressing-table, camp-cupboard, hammock-frame, seat, and pot-hook | [109] |
| Camp-chair, biscuit-stick, and blanket camp-bed | [111] |
| The birch-bark dish that will hold fluids. Details of making | [115] |
| A bear would rather be your friend than your enemy | [118] |
| Making friends with a ruffed grouse | [120] |
| Found on the trail | [122] |
| Timber wolves | [124] |
| Baby moose | [126] |
| Stalking wild birds | [128] |
| The fish-hawk will sometimes build near the ground | [131] |
| Antelopes of the western plains | [135] |
| Good food on the trail | [143] |
| Fruits found principally in the south and the middle west | [147] |
| Fruits found principally in the north and the middle west | [151] |
| Fruits common to most of the States | [155] |
| Hickory nuts, sweet and bitter | [159] |
| Nuts with soft shells. Beechnut and chestnut | [161] |
| Poisonous and non-poisonous snakes | [173] |
| Plants poison to the touch | [181] |
| Plants poison to the taste | [185] |
| The white birch-tree makes a fine background for the beaver | [191] |
| Blacktail deer snapped with a background of snow | [193] |
| The skunk | [195] |
| The porcupine stood in the shade but the background was light | [197] |
| Photographing a woodcock from ambush | [199] |
| The country through which you pass, with a trailer in the foreground | [201] |
Method of protecting roots to keep plants fresh while you carry them
to camp for photographing | [203] |
| A rowboat is a safer craft than a canoe | [206] |
| Keep your body steady | [208] |
| Canoeing on placid waters | [210] |
| Bring your canoe up broadside to the shore | [212] |
| How to use the paddle and a flat-bottomed rowboat | [215] |
| The raft of logs | [219] |
| Primitive weaving in raft building | [221] |
| Learn to be at home in the water | [225] |
| For dinner | [229] |
| The veteran | [231] |
| Bends in knot tying | [235] |
| Figure eight knot | [237] |
| Overhand bow-line knot | [237] |
| Underhand bow-line knot | [239] |
| Sheepshank knot | [239] |
| Parcel slip-knot | [241] |
| Cross-tie parcel knot | [241] |
| Fisherman's knot | [241] |
| The halter, slip-knot, and hitching-tie | [243] |
| The fireman's lift | [245] |
| Aids in "first aid" | [247] |
| Restoring respiration | [253] |
| When darkness closes in | [259] |
| Wood-thrush | [261] |
| Yellow-throated vireo | [262] |
| Fire without matches | [264] |
| Fire without the bow | [267] |