AROUND OUR CAMP-FIRE 
I leave this rule for others when I’m dead, 
Be always sure you’re right—then go ahead. 
—DAVID CROCKETT. 

RECREATION FOR AUGUST 
We think the reader will agree that the present 
number is just a little bit the best we have ever turned 
out, and that we have amply fulfilled our promises 
made in the Junenumber. But wait! At the present 
writing (June 5) we have the magazine for August 
made up in dummy form, and comparison with the 
folded form proofs of the July number by a jury of 
five results in three for August as against two for July. 
Were we, ourselves, to cast a vote, it should be in 
favor of the later issue. | 
An exceptionally good article 
that will appear in the August 
magazine is by Ernest Russell, 
and has to do with the settler’s 
stating that an attempt might be made to ascend Mt. 
McKinley. Since then a dispatch from Seattle, 
Washington, states that Dr. F. A. Cook will lead the 
new expedition in the ascent of Mt. McKinley. The 
intrepid doctor is, by this time, in Alaska. He is 
accompanied by the celebrated mountain climber, 
Prof. H. C. Parker, of the University of New York. 
Mr. R. W. Parker, an experienced Arctic explorer, 
and RECREATION’S special artist and correspondent, 
Mr. Belmore Browne. Mr. Browne has hunted and _ 
sketched all over that part of Alaska, and was in the 
Mt. McKinley country last season. 
If any one ever reaches the top 
of Mt. McKinley, these seem to 
be the men to do it. But the 
reader must remember that it is 
battle with the wilderness; there 
are some very good illustrations 
from photographs. Another val- 
uable illustrated article is by 
Eugene Parsons and tells of the 
explorations of General Zebulon 
Pike, of Pike’s Peak fame. This 
article will be all the more inter- 
esting in view of the coming 
Pike’s Peak celebration, at Colo- 
rado Springs, during the last 
week of September. Of especial 
interest to hunters of big game 
will be Everett Dufour’s article 
on hunting the prong-horned 
antelope, and Sid Howard’s arti- © 
cle on caribou hunting on St. 
Patrick’s marshes. The bird 
hunters will be entertained by 
Dr. George McAleer, with an 
article on prospecting for wood- 
cock. John Boyd contributes an 
illustrated article on Indians as 
Recreation’s 
Platform 
An uncompromising fight 
for the protection, preserva- 
tion and propagation of all 
game; placing a sane limit 
on the bag that can be taken 
in a day or season; the pre- 
vention of the shipment or 
transportation of game, ex- 
cept in -limited quantities, 
and then only when accom- 
panied by the party who 
killed it; the prohibition of 
the sale of game. These are 
“*Recreation’s”’ slogans now 
and forever. 

a stupendous undertaking. Mt. 
McKinley is not only the highest 
mountain on this continent, but 
it is the biggest mountain in 
the world. Mt. Everest, of the 
Himalaya range in Asia, reaches 
the phenomenal and unique 
elevation of 29,002 feet, but 
to do this the wily Asiatic 
mountain has taken advantage 
of a high tableland for its foot- 
hold; thus, Everest stands on 
the shoulders of other moun- 
tains. Mt. McKinley, on the 
contrary, looms right up from 
the earth, standing on its own 
feet and thrusting its ice-bound 
shoulders and snow-covered 
head away above the clouds, 
without sacrificing its mountain- 
hood by being boosted to its ele- 
vation by other less ambitious 
mountains. 
guides, and Hrolf Wisby tells how to become an 
expert swimmer. | 
Other articles and stories there are in abundance, 
entertaining and usefully suggestive, but we prefer 
rather to surprise our readers than tell them so far in 
advance what they must wait for. Anyway, the 
feature of the August number will be its surprises; 
so, as we said before, wait! 
RECREATION AND MT. McKINLEY 
In the June number we told of the exploring expe- 
dition to the Shushitna Valley, at the same time 
Mt. McKinley is a true American and reaches its 
- eminence by its own exertions, so to speak. RECRE- 
ATION stands for achievement, strenuous outdoor 
work, and hence it is right and proper that its 
already celebrated staff artist should be the adven- 
turous soul to plant our flag on the top of the biggest — 
mountain in the world. 
Mr. Browne’s story of the expedition will make 
good reading. To make certain of getting the 
numbers containing it, be sure your name is on our 
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