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    Heading out : a history of American camping / Terence Young.
    by Young, Terence (Terence G.), author.
    Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2017.
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    xi, 367 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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    Introduction : roughing it smoothly -- Adventures in the wilderness : William H.H. Murray and the beginning of recreational camping -- The art of camping : roughing it during the decades before automobiles -- Let's hit the motor camping trail : the automobile transforms camping -- The garage in the forest : E.P. Meinecke and the development of the modern autocampground -- Liberalizing the campground : W.J. Trent, Jr. and the struggle against national park segregation -- A clearer picture of this country : trailer camping to discover America -- A renewal of our faith and ideals : the development of backpacking and long-distance trails -- Epilogue : the decline and promise of American camping.
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    Young shows how camping progressed from an impulse among city-dwellers to seek temporary retreat from their exhausting everyday surroundings to a form of recreation so popular that an industry grew up around it to provide an endless supply of ever-lighter and more convenient gear. Young humanizes camping's history by spotlighting key figures in its development and a sampling of the campers and the variety of their excursions. Readers will meet William H.H. Murray, who launched a craze for camping in 1869; Mary Bedell, who car camped around America for 12,000 miles in 1922; William Trent Jr., who struggled to end racial segregation in national park campgrounds before World War II; and Carolyn Patterson, who worked with the U.S. Department of State in the 1960s and 1970s to introduce foreign service personnel to the "real" America through trailer camping. These and many additional characters give readers a reason to don a headlamp, pull up a chair beside the campfire, and discover the invigorating and refreshing history of sleeping under the stars.
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