Did the early settlers ever go on a camping trip?

Answer 1

no

Answer 2

As others have mentioned, anybody (including the pioneers, prospectors, and scouts) traveling for days across undeveloped country was going to be on a camping trip whether they wanted to or not.

However, if you are asking if the early settlers and explorers ever went out on non-necessary camping trips just for fun and relaxation... the answer is yes. Many of these people had a natural urge to wander and if they needed to take a break from working on the mine, farm or ranch then a little fishing, hunting, or camping trip (done for fun, not necessarily because they needed the food) was really their only option - it is not like they could go spend the weekend at a resort hotel.

I have read numerous accounts of such excursions by early settlers and explorers. Yellowstone National Park for example was established as a park specifically for the purpose of camping and relaxation in 1872 - when camping was the only option for staying there. In his classic book, "Roughing It", Mark Twain also describes going on a 'fishing excursion' while working in the mining districts of California and Nevada in the 1860s. Many of these trips consisted of a group of guys (although families sometimes went too - almost never single women) going out on a hunting or fishing trip where the main purpose was just explore some pretty country, lounge in camp, BS among themselves and drink from the ample stocks of booze brought along (not unlike today). Such trips were usually longer than camping trips today - often a couple of weeks.

One should note that such leisure trips were usually possible only for those who were better off and had lower employees to watch their business while they were gone or by wage workers who could quit their jobs and take a short 'vacation' before hiring on with someone else. Small time ranch, farm, and mine owners who had to run their holdings entirely by themselves (and had no older children to do so) could not afford to leave their properties unattended for long periods.

Answer 3

Back then in those days you were always on a camping trip. Oh I may say it was not a great camping days like we have now. They had rough and tough hardships such as; diseases, no cooking devices like we have now only over a open fire;Washed their clothes in streams or wore them until they were so old that they eroded off their bodies; Fighting indians; horses being stolen; covered wagons which are not the pleasure recreational vehicles that we have today;their food supplies were limited and rationed;

Answer 4

Their whole way of life was a camping trip

Answer 5

Yes they were on a constant camping trip even if they lived in a cabin.

Answer 6

Probably on hunting trips they camped

Answer 7

I think that there entire life was one big "camping trip"

Answer 8

most of there lives were spent in the wilderness so the went on civilization Trip. where they got live in a city for a bit.

Answer 9

of course. they had boyscouts to