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PREFACEunder the same title that I contributed, in 1904-1906, to the magazine Field and Stream. Othersections have been published, in whole or in part, inSports Afield, Recreation, Forest and Strs'am, andOuting. A great deal of the work here appears forthe first time.Many of these pages were written in the wilderness,where there were abundant facilities for testingthe value of suggestions that were outside therange of my previous experience. In this connectionI must acknowledge indebtedness to a scrapbookfull of notes and clippings from sportsmen'sjournals which was one of the most valued tomesin the rather select " library " that graced half asoap-box in one corner of my cabin.I owe much both to the spirit and the letter ofthat classic in the literature of outdoor life, the littlebook on Woodcraft, by the late George R. Sears,who is best known by his Indian-given title of''Nessmuk." To me, in a peculiar sense, it hasbeen rermdium utriusque fortunce; and it is butfitting that I should dedicate to the memory of itsauthor this pendant to his work.Horace Kephart.Bryson City, N. C,February, 19 16.