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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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pack up, leave a camp, and go elsewhere.

Quotations

1896

[The squaw] breaks camp and pitches it again where the husband, who has gone on ... and whose trail she has followed, indicates by sticking up brush in the snow.

1955

The next day I broke camp and decided to go as far south as the desolation allowed.