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ae E ONLY \ a $9 LS 835 \ \\\ x @eneset cs PSL ey Aakers S an Ue 4 AY Higet He aie oe! gett AIM i a = _ 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. oye, . But something besides a common interest holds us together. Somehow a 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 as — oa = had never met; often has it proved an open sesame between strangers es a far land. : ae 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- ' img and sympathy that will some day bring to man the real democracy and brotherhood | heseeks. 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. If 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, Ye Ae IF ANY of you can throw further "THE reason for asking is as follows: Nearly thirty 285 . . . = years ago a small party of hunters were storm light on the following, it will cer bound in an Indian camp in the lower Sierra Nevada, tainly make interesting reading. in California. A member of the party who could ~ Who was this white.giant among speak a few Indian words made a “hit” with a very * the Western Indians a century or so ago? _ old squaw, one of the oldest in appearance that any = It’s so wonderful a tale that if it were pre- of the hunters ever saw, and she tried to give us a : | : : : line on the history of past storms, other white hunt- ee : ) _ _ sented as a fiction story we'd hesitate to use ers and some severe sickness. We could not make -_§0 improbable a hero as this eight-footer. out if she was relating events in her childhood or ' Yet the evidence Mr. Weaver brings for- during the childhood of her mother. The childhood __ward points at least to a possibility in fact. Part, was plain enough, through her signs, but the Set . Ke tate word meaning ‘“‘mother” was so frequently used and ~ Visalia, California. our knowledge of her language, as was her knowl- ‘Can any member of the Camp-Fire or any of the edge of ours, so slight that we could not be certain. staff or corps of the magazine throw any light on the At any rate the gist of her relation was that a great ‘identity of a hunter or trapper of almost gigantic many years before, while her tribe was living in an- _ $ize who disappeared unaccountably, probably be- _ other section of the same mountain range, another tween 1800 and 1820, in the far West? His remark- party of four white men, one of them of tremendous able stature must have made him well known and of _ stature, had come to her camp in the midst of a _ great repute among the early Mountain Men. storm. They were the first white men she or her 174 —— comicbooks.com— o)