The Exhibit at the World’s Fair 
At its last annual meeting the Club determined 
to have an exhibit at Chicago. It was felt that it 
would be a pity if at the World’s Fair there was no 
representation of so typical and peculiar a phase 
of American national development as life on the 
frontier. Accordingly it was determined to erect 
a regular frontier hunter’s cabin, and to fit it out 
exactly as such cabins are now fitted out in the 
wilder portions of the great plains and among 
the Rockies, wherever the old-time hunters still 
exist, or wherever their immediate successors, the 
ranchmen and pioneer settlers, have taken their 
places. 
The managers of the World’s Fair very kindly 
gave the Club for its exhibit the wooded island in 
the middle lagoon. Here the club erected a long, 
low cabin of unhewn logs; in other words, a log 
house of the kind in which the first hunters and 
frontier settlers dwelt on the frontier, whether this 
frontier was in the backwoods of the East in the 
days when Daniel Boone wandered and hunted in 
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