Took a blanket and lay out at nights

"Took a blanket and lay out at nights, sometimes in a hollow tree.  There use to be a good many large sycamores.  Get inside one of them, and sometimes tolerably warm.  In rainy weather elsewhere our blanket was stretched up on sticks and we lay under it.  Sometimes under a bank, in a place where we could not be seen far, we would build up a fire" (Draper MSS, Samuel McDowell Interview, 13cc218-225).

Draper, Lyman C. Draper Manuscript Collection: Series Cc; Kentucky Papers. Chicago: University of Chicago Library, Dept. of Photoreproduction, 1966. Archival material.