“Free Camp Grounds for Tourists” is the Welcome Sign from Maine to California—Outing magazine, April 1922
Outing was a late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century American magazine covering a variety of sporting activities. It began publication in 1882 as the Wheelman “an illustrated magazine of cycling literature and news” and had four title changes before ceasing publication in 1923.
Burning Gas on the Gypsy Trail
Original 1922 article
republished on Haw Creek,
April 6, 2018
Outing, April, 1922
By Katherine Lafitte
There Must Be Something in It When a Woman Can Find Beauty in the Prairies, Joy in a Cyclone, and Fun in Mudholes.
AMERICANS are seeing America a la automobile. A few go de luxe, curtained from the dust in great luxurious limousines, properly chauffeured, valeted and veiled. But the majority of us get into khaki and rough it—in Fords, Dodges, Buicks, Franklins, Mitchells, Maxwells, Coles—heavens! the list is too long.
We are bolting carriers to our running boards and rolling our own—blankets, tents, stoves, lunch kits, fishing tackle, packs and baskets, water-bags hanging before and behind, and tucked in on top the ever-ready camera, for scarce an hour goes by without bringing something worth snapping. And then, you know, there’s that sign, “Picture ahead. Kodak as you go.” One can’t get away from that—nor believe it always.
