Book

Adventures in the Wilderness

Or, Camp-life in the Adirondacks

William H. H. Murray

1869

Fields, Osgood & Company

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Origin Story

How to Live ‘Amid the Silence of the Woods,' According to America’s First Camping Guide

The history of camping in the U.S. starts in the Adirondacks, with a guidebook that became an instant bestseller.

by Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on July 23, 2018
Origin Story

The Religious Roots of America's Love for Camping

How a minister's accidental bestseller launched the country's first outdoor craze.

by Terence Young via What It Means to Be American on October 12, 2017

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Crowd of campers in Stoneman Meadow, Yosemite National Park, 1915.

The First Campgrounds Took the City to the Wilderness

“A camping area is a form, however primitive, of a city” —Constant Nieuwenhuys

by Martin Hogue via HNN on May 7, 2023

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