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RECREATION 



PENNSYLVANIA. 



Dear Founder: 



Greetings from the Fort Pike branch of 

 the Sons of Daniel Boone. Fort Pike was 

 astir early on the morning of June ioth, for 

 orders were out to "hit the trail." We start- 

 ed at sunrise with four scouts and the fol- 

 lowing equipment, for a three days' campaign, 

 in the interest of our allies in fur and feath- 

 er. Our wilderness outfit consisted of two 

 shelter tents 5x7 each, two large rubber 

 sheets, four heavy woolen army blankets, one 

 frying-pan, three small saucepans, one cof- 

 fee-pot, two water-pails, several small jars 

 for suet, pepper and butter. Each scout was 

 provided with two days' marching rations, as 

 follows : One-half pound of steak, one pound 

 of bacon, three eggs, six potatoes, small 

 can flour, corn meal and baking powder and 

 small can coffee. We traveled light, each 

 scout relying on his rod and tackle for his 

 third day's rations. Our outfit was locked 

 down the trail to Wolf Lake, there loaded 

 into canoes and paddled a mile and a quarter 

 to the farther shore. There ws again locked 

 our outfit, "hit the trail" and plunged into 

 the forest. Our camping site was reached 

 about 1 p. m., on June 10th, and a hasty din- 

 ner prepared before pitching tents, and mak- 

 ing camp. Dinner was finished, dishes 

 washed, each scout washing his own dishes, 

 and tents pitched and all in order by 2.30 

 p. m. A fine mountain spring furnished 

 drinking-water, while a plunge into the clear 

 water of a mountain lake put life into the 

 tired bodies of our scouts. Our first night 

 in camp was spent round a large campfire 

 swapping yarns, and talking over the future 

 greatness of the brave Sons of Daniel Boone. 

 We welcomed to our campfire two old woods- 

 men, about 9 p. m., who offered us some fish 

 in exchange for hot coffee, and they pro- 

 nounced our camp perfect in every way. Each 

 scout had our emblem inscribed in his hat, 

 which is a pine tree, showing that our place 

 in the order is the wilderness. We would 

 suggest that each order thus adopt an em- 

 blem ; for instance, an order on the plains 

 could adopt a prairie dog, an order in a val- 

 ley a river. 



Our camp was early astir on June nth, 

 and after a breakfast of fried bacon, eggs, 

 corn bread and coffee, we took a cold plunge 

 and were ready to start on our tour of in- 

 spection. We found birds' nests in plenty, 

 made some excellent photographs, and saw 

 muskrats and their houses, while one mink 

 was encountered on our line of march. In 

 the evening we gathered round our fire, com- 

 paring notes, and writing up journals. All 

 our game has wintered well and our grouse 

 are with young broods. We intend making 

 these tours at least twice each month, and 

 have constituted ourselves into a sort of for- 

 est patrol, to guard the interests of our game 

 and uphold the motto of our order. We 



would be glad to receive a copy of the Con- 

 stitution and By-laws, which vou can send 

 to Elmer R. Gregor, our founder and ad- 

 viser. We also enclose one dollar for a year's 

 subscription to Recreation, which you can 

 also send to Mr. Gregor. We are contem- 

 plating building a log club house, under his 

 direction, which, when completed, we shall 

 call Camp Dan Beard. Following is our list 

 of members to date : 



Eddie Joyce, Clifford Johnson, Ed. Hart, 

 George Mulligan, Harold Williams, Gerald 

 Baird. 



We intend making our fort one of the lar- 

 gest and strongest in the order before we are 

 many years older, and hope to put the game 

 of Pike county out of the reach of the game 

 butcher and his associates through our vigi- 

 lance and patrol of the forests. 



Wishing you and all our brother scouts 

 the best of success, we remain, 



Most respectfully, . 

 Fort Pike Branch, Sons of Daniel Boone. 



Pike Co. Penn. 



THE BUFFALO. 



It is too bad that the "Sons of Daniel 

 Boone" was not organized in time to take a 

 hand with us in the preliminary work of pre- 

 serving the remaining buffalo ; but the Dan- 

 iels need not feel bad over this, for the ante- 

 lope comes next in line and the Boones can 

 get busy now, working up a plan to save 

 these beautiful little creatures from total 

 extinction and earn some notches for 

 Simon Kenton to cut in the stock of his 

 tally gun. 



Speaking of Boone reminds me that Tap- 

 pan Adney, the traveler, author and artist 

 called the other day and was so much inter- 

 ested in the "Sons of Daniel Boone" that he 

 sent us some photographs of Boone relics 

 and a Boone cave ; but it was too late to get 

 them in this number of Recreation and they 

 will apoear in the following issue. 



No doubt, all our young pioneers will be 

 glad to learn that Gus Carson, the grandson 

 of Kit Carson, the old Indian scout, lives on 

 a farm a few miles north of Guthrie, Okla- 

 homa, and it would be a good idea for each 

 of the different forts now organized to write 

 to Mr. Gus Carson and tell him' he has been 

 elected an honorary member of their fort, 

 ■for Mr. Carson is a true sportsman and he 

 knows more about the quail than anyone else 

 in the territory where he lives. 



He says he has planted twenty acres of 

 Kaffir corn, especially for Bob White, and 

 that colonies of quail live in the field of 

 corn, which furnishes them food and pro- 

 tection all through the summer. 



Mr. Gus deserves an official notch for his 

 gun for this act in the preservation of 

 game. 



