THE BOOK OF WOODCRAFT
By Ernest Thompson Seton
This large volume contains in full the Constitution, By-laws, Standards of Exploit, Games, Songs, Dances, Ceremonies, and Ways of the Indians. It is indeed an encyclopedia of camp-fire lore and information about Woodcraft. It has 567 pages and more than 500 drawings.
Published by Doubleday, Page & Co., of Garden City, X. Y., and costs $1.75. Its seventeen sections are as follows:
I. Nine Principles of Scouting. Recreation, Camp Life, Self-government with adult guidance. The Magic of the Camp-fire, Woodcraft Pursuits, Honors by Standards, Personal Decorations for Personal Achievements, Heroic Ideal, Picturesqueness in Everything.
II. The Spartans of the West. The Religion of the Best Redmen.
III. The Purpose and Laws of the Woodcraft Indians.
IV. Honors and Degrees and Indian Names.
V. Woodland Songs, Dances, and Ceremonies.
VI. Suggested Programs.
VII. General Scouting Indoors. Handicraft Stunts, Ways of Making Money.
VIII. General Scouting Outdoors. Fire-lighting with Rubbing-sticks, Weather Wisdom, Starcraft, When Lost in the Woods, Camp Tools and Ways.
IX. Signaling and Indian Signs.
X. Campercraft, or all about camping in comfort and safety, without losing the joys of outdoor life.
XI. Games for Camp. About fifty games used in our camps.
XII. Health and Woodland Medicine. First Aid, Ready Help, Woodland Remedies.
XIII. Natural History. Common Kinds of Animals, How to Stuff a Bird, Secrets of the Trail, Trails of Animals.
XIV. Mushrooms and Toadstools. How to Distinguish.
XV. Forestry. Fifty common forest trees, fully illustrated.
XVI. Some Indian Ways. How to Make Teepees, Headdress. Warshirt, Moccasins, Bows and Arrows, etc.
XVII. Camp-fire Stories of Indians. True Indian stories, showing the Redman to have been the most heroic of all savages.
