Camping With A Bedroll & Haversack: # 3 Protein, Insects & Random Scoot

Welcome to the miniseries "Camping With Only A Bedroll and Haversack." Part 3 is titled: "Protein, Insects & Random Scoot." You will learn about 1) the advantages of a bedroll, 2) foraging for supper, 3) homemade bow saws, 4) how to make an insect bar for a tent or shelter, 5) how to cook woodlice, 6) dental hygiene / the toothache tree, and 7) taking a "random scoot" into the pathless forest.

This miniseries demonstrates hiking, camping and wilderness survival techniques used during the 1800s. Many of these techniques have been largely forgotten, but are as effective today as when they were first discovered. Although modern tools and technologies are used in the videos, I attempt to use older technologies and improvise solutions to survival problems in a way similar to what our ancestors did before the American West was "settled." The miniseries is based on historical accounts from American pioneers (http://www.pioneerhandbooks.com), Civil War Veterans (such as: John M. Gould, 1877, How To Camp Out, Advice From A Civil War Veteran) and naturalists, such as John Muir and Henry David Thoreau.

For additional information see:

Advantages of a bedroll:
Knapsack vs. Bedroll by Galen Wagner, http://yellowhammerrifles.tripod.com/... The Advantages Of A Camping Bed Roll by Andy Brock, http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Advanta... A Civil War Bed Roll: http://www.47thva.org/pages/articles/...

Tenting tonight / Past tents:
Past Tents, The Way We Camped by Susan Snyder, 2006
Tenting Tonight? The Confederate Infantryman in Camp on Campaign by K.C. MacDonald http://www.lazyjackmess.com/tenting2.htm

Portable soup:
The Food Journal of Lewis & Clark, Recipes for an Expedition by Mary Gunderson, 2003
How To Make Portable Soup: http://nourishedkitchen.com/homemade-...

Cooking and eating woodlice (pill bugs):
Cooking and Eating Woodlice -- A Real Bushcreaft Experience by Angus: http://www.woodlands.co.uk/blog/pract...
Eating Pillbugs http://www.eattheweeds.com/armadillid...
Eating Insects For Survival: http://www.fieldandstream.com/article...

Dental hygiene and the toothache tree:
Chewing Sticks: http://www.afrostylemag.com/chewingst...
History of the toothbrush: http://www.dentistry.com/daily-dental...
Toothache Tree: http://www.foragingtexas.com/2008/08/...

Random scoot into the pathless forest:
Random Scoot, Atlantic Monthly 1878, 41.645
Walking by Henry David Thoreau, 1851-1861 http://www.thoreau-online.org/walking...
Walden by Henry David Thoreau, 1854 http://thoreau.eserver.org/walden00.html
There Is A Pleasure In The Pathless Woods by Lord Byron 1788-1824

John Muir:
A Thousand-Mile Walk To the Gulf by John Muir, 1916.
The Wilderness World of John Muir edited by Edwin Way Teale, 2001

DISCLAIMER: This video is only a summary. Seek additional information before eating anything with which you are not familiar. Do not eat wild plants unless you definitely know what they are and you know how you will react. Some edible wild plants have poisonous look-alikes. You may be allergic to some edible wild plants. If you are at all unsure, don't eat it. I assume no legal liability or responsibility for injuries resulting from use of information in this video.

Videography by Ken Kramm; filmed in east Texas, USA, March 2013, Canon Vixia HF G10, Final Cut Pro X. Music: Dan Heferan's Jig and Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here by the Heftone Banjo Orchestra, http://heftone.com/orchestra/ta-ra-ra..., Creative Commons 1.0 license; Banjo Short by Jason Shaw,http://www.audionautix.com/index.php, Creative Commons 3.0 license.