Adventure Magazine Cover — page 190: what you’re looking at

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FRI Re een OP \ gh wits, C D- wiPoaders raters an FIRE iventurers Our Camp-Fire came into being May 5, 1912, with our June issue, and since then its fire has never died down. Many have gathered about it and they are of all classes and degrees, high and low, rich and poor, adventurers and stay-at-homes, and from all parts of the earth. Some whose voices we used to know have taken the Long Trail and are heard no more, but they are still memories among us, and new voices are heard, and welcomed. We are drawn together by a common liking for the strong, clean things of out-of- doors, for word from the earth’s far places, for man in action instead of caged by cir- cumstance. The spirit of adventure lives in all men; the rest is chance. But something besides a common interest holds us together. Somehow 4a real com- radeship has grown up among us. Men can not thus meet and talk together without growing into friendlier relations; many a time does one of us come to the rest for facts and guidance; many a close personal friendship has our Camp-Fire built up between two men who had never met; often has it proved an open sesame between strangers in a far land. Perhaps our Camp-Fire is even a little more. Perhaps it is a bit of leaven working | gently among those of different station toward the fuller and more human understand- ing and sympathy that will some day bring to man the real democracy and brotherhood he seeks. Few indeed are the agencies that bring together on a friendly footing so many and such great extremes as here. And we are numbered by the hundred thousand now. Ii you are come to our Camp-Fire for the first time and find you like the things we like, join us and find yourself very welcome. There is no obligation except ordinary manliness, no forms or ceremonies, no dues, no officers, no anything except men and women gathered for interest and friendliness. Your desire to join makes you a member. s “Uncle Frank’’ Huston has put it, to press-agenting. Of course he was press- agented; even his best friends must admit that. But whether it was to a degree that really affected the validity of his claim to fame is another matter and I don’t believe we want to start another Drannan discus- sion at Camp-Fire. Elyria, Ohio. I have just been reading about Custer, Buffalo Bill and Calamity Jane. There has been so much bunk written and told concerning Custer, Reno, Buffalo Bill, etc., that I thought it might be that you would like to read a more truthful account con- cerning those men. OME more testimony concerning the My regiment, the 7th U. S. Infantry, was ordered Custer Massacre, from a comrade who to the fight where Custer fell, but the order being countermanded, the 7th Cavalry, Custer’s com- was formerly of the 7th Infantry, which mand, was ordered into the fight while the 7th barely missed being in the fight itself. = —sInfantry were detailed to guard the wagon-train. What Dr. Arnold said about Buffalo Reno was not to blame for the massacre of Custer Bill was mild enough in tone but, well, and his men, for Reno obeyed Custer’s orders as : : well as he could under the circumstances, while takes the general point of view that to a Custer, disobeying his own orders, caused the certain degree Buffalo Bill’s fame was due, deaths of himself and his men. Custer had been 176 Gomichbooks.¢