We had been their about 20 or 30 Minuts when we heard a stick crack...

"I stoped the tuch hole of my gun with tallow and then did ketch fire and we made up a fire and Dryed our selves.  I laid my gun Down on the back side of the fire to dry.  We concluded that when it would slack raining we would go back the same way as we came and we would yet kill a bear as the sighn seemed to be plenty.  As we stood up before our fire we would look Down at this mountain.  We all concluded it was the roughest looking place that we had ever seen - big lofty looking Rocks, big guts, Dismal precipasses, etc.  We was chitchattng, telling some mrry tails, Major Downey singing at times all though with a loe voice. We had been their about 20 or 30 Minuts when we heard a stick crack at our gap.  The word was, 'What is that?'  One of us answered, 'Chestnuts a falling.'  Another answered, 'I Don't like it.'"

Trabue, Daniel, and Chester R. Young. Westward into Kentucky: The Narrative of Daniel Trabue. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. Print.

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.

With our feet towards the fire

"After travelling through an exceedingly rough country, and in extreme bad paths indeed, frequently without any, crossing several deep creeks, or water courses, we found ourselves at night beginning to ascend the Wart Mountain, which is upon the south-west side of Smith's River; and we allighted on an agreeable and convenient spot, near the side of a brook of water, to put up for the night, turning our horses out with their bells and hobbles on, to prevent our losing them.
We struck up and kindled a large fire, gathered leaves for us to lie upon, eat heartily of our jerked (or dried) venison, drank some brandy and water, (for we had brought a large stock along with us), wrapped ourselves up in our blankets, and lay down under a large tree, with our feet towards the fire; having traveled about 46 miles that day" (Smyth, 302-3).

Smyth, John F. D. A Tour in the United States of America: Containing an Account of the Present Situation of That Country, the Population, Agriculture, Commerce, Customs, and Manners of the Inhabitants ... with a Description of the Indian Nations, the General Face of the Country, Mountains, Forests, Rivers, and the Most Beautiful, Grand, and Picturesque Views Throughout That Vast Continent Likewise Improvements in Husbandry That May Be Adopted with Great Advantage in Europe. London: Printed for G. Robinson, 1784. Print.