Camping With A Bedroll & Haversack: #2 Spontoons, Plants & Log Cabin Bed

Welcome to the miniseries "Camping With Only A Bedroll and Haversack." Part 2 is titled: "Spontoons, Plants & Log Cabin Bed." You will learn about 1) using spontoons as survival tools, 2) why Wax Myrtles are called "minimarts" in the forest, 3) why parched corn was the preferred trail food, 4) how to make Yaupon tea, 5) how to repel biting insects and 6) how to make a bed/pillow from Spanish moss.
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 (www.pioneerhand...), 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:
Spontoons and the Lewis and Clark Expedition: www.history.arm...,
www.historiccit...
Wax Myrtle: www.ces.ncsu.ed.... www.eattheweeds....
Parched corn: www.utahprepper...,
• Parched Corn
Yaupon tea: beaufortinlet.b.... ,
news.ufl.edu/20...
Spanish moss: floridaspanishm..., www.terrebonnep..., www.ehow.com/in..., floridaspanishm....
A Thousand-Mile Walk To the Gulf by John Muir, 1916.
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, February 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, heftone.com/orc..., Creative Commons 1.0 license; Banjo Short by Jason Shaw, www.audionautix..., Creative Commons 3.0 license.