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Show into it one first had to climb onto the wagon tongue-and from there step up to the floor. A small, lightweight camp stove stood on the right side as one entered the "dutch" door. The stove was about twenty inches long and a bit taller, and it stood on sturdy iron legs bolted to the floor (inside the door of the right side). The wood burning stove served for heating as well as cooking. There was just room enough to walk five feet or so through the center of the camp wagon toward the back of it where there was a bed across the rear end. Night light was furnished by a small kerosene bracket lamp fastened to one side of a wooden bow. Between the stove and the bed there was a short and narrow counter seat, and on the opposite side a longer seat stretched from the door to the bed. A three foot square board on hinges could be lifted from the side of the bed when not in use. And when it was held hy a leather strap that hung from the ceiling it formed a small meal table for two or three people sitting on the side seats. If the neighbors from nearby camps came to eat at John K*s camp or there were too many people to accommodate, the food was eaten out of doors in picnic style. CAMP STORAGE There was some space underneath- the bed for storage, but It was only as wide or as deep as the wagon box base allowed, and any additional width in the upper part of the camp frame 59 |
