| 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 |
