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Lifetime: 1862 - 1931 Passed: ≈ 93 years ago

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Horace Kephart

Books by Horace Kephart

Book of Camping and Woodcraft: A Guidebook for Those Who Travel in the Wilderness Cover image

Book of Camping and Woodcraft: A Guidebook for Those Who Travel in the Wilderness

Adventure Non-Fiction Travel
Cooking Survival Wilderness Hiking Fishing Hunting Camping Woodcraft Outfitting First aid Tree Identification Campsite Game dressing Fish dressing Camp cookery Forest travel Lost prevention Survival skills Backwoods handicrafts Wilderness medicine Campfire Backpacking

Horace Kephart's 'Book of Camping and Woodcraft' is a comprehensive guide to the practical aspects of wilderness living. Originally published as a collection of articles in Field and Stream magazine, the book covers a wide range of topics, including...

Our Southern Highlanders Cover image

Our Southern Highlanders

History Memoir Non-Fiction
Racism Ethnography social commentary Mountain Life Nature writing Cultural History Appalachian Culture Southern Folklore Early 20th Century America

Our Southern Highlanders is a memoir by Horace Kephart, a writer and librarian who lived in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina in the early 20th century. The book is a detailed account of his experiences and observations of the region's peop...