Situated somewhere between what historians John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle have described as the “challenging new circumstances and the safe reassurances of familiarity,” the camp is a substitute for the home—a place to dwell, to sleep, to interact socially, to prepare and eat food.
Stripped of any but the most essential conveniences and often merely shielded by a single layer of paper-thin, 40-denier ripstop nylon, the modern shelter, and the patch
