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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