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The palace of the wilderness is the marquee or umbrella tent. 



Get the Right Tent 



by Franklin M. Reck . . . photographs by John Calkins 



A TENT gives us title to all parts of the map where town names 

 disappear and the road becomes a trail. If we own a tent, 

 the streams, the lakes, and the mountains are ours. Wherever we 

 can go with a canoe, packhorse, automobile, or afoot, there we 

 can set up housekeeping. Since the tent is our shelter and our 

 home, it is the camping outfit's First Item and should be se- 

 lected with care. 



All tent designs and variants trace themselves back to a few 

 main kinds, five of which are described here. The tents pictured 

 in this article were loaned to the Ford Times by courtesy of the 

 David T. Abercrombie Co., 97 Chambers Street, New York, 



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