If you are firmly in camp Smokey Bear, this article might not be for you, cause people this go around are handing out wildfires like Oprah. Our topic this time is fire starting techniques and methods documented in Republic era Texas and closely adjacent areas. Some are seen just about everywhere and some I’ve never seen before necessarily anywhere, or at least in an Anglo context. It’s a curious thing to note that even the mundane and items as commonplace fire lighting get enough references...

Sometimes I think some people get more out of deciding what to camp with than camping itself, either as glampers or going Spartan. It’s the elephant in the room that the majority of people or personas that we wish to emulate in the woods were mounted or had some kind of boat. Reconciling that to stationary camps for a weekend is easy enough, you just stuff the back of your trunk full of three pack animals worth of things, lay it all out at camp for some glamping, and scoop it all up after the...

It’s opening day pretty soon for a new hunting season and across the country deer season and muzzleloader season are on many people’s...