Example:My mother was tied to her mama is apron strings and had bible read by papa every night by campfire light.This was Church Camp and children were to be seen but not heard.Father did not Church Camp.He'd overnight in a dry
riverbed under an old horse blanket after a supper of plucked
catus pear and spit-roasted fresh kill.

Back in 1924 my grandparents spent a 6-month honeymoon in Yellowstone, living off the land and fishing. - fact.

l often wonder how my parents survived camping as kids. The stories they tell about camping trips in the backwoods.
''Ax-idents'' while cutting wood for the campfire. Disappearing into the bush with no map, compass or plan & then somehow finding their way out. Drying wet leather footwear close to the campfire & then having to improvise footwear as the leather footwear shriveled up. Bear encounters where they scared the bear off by whacking it with a stick. Cookouts with added forest plants they thought were edible. The day after when they found out they weren't.