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1† — Fur Trade, Hist.
the headquarters of a party of Indian hunters.
Quotations
1897
So great a comfort and solace is it to them in their solitary wigwams and lonely hunting-camps, that nothing will induce them to leave it out of their pack.
1900
Before long the actual trading in peltries fell into the hands of a peculiar class of men, the coureurs des bois, hardy, dare-devil adventurers, with a knowledge of Indian language and character, who travelled alone to the far-off hunting camps and bartered canoe-loads of goods bought on long credit for furs and skins.
1965
Members of a hunting camp wore hock-moccasins as footwear.
2
a camp operated to accommodate sportsmen wishing to hunt.
Quotations
1964
Ezra Ames . . . operates a fishing and hunting camp there. . . .