The book reflects a 50-year-old history of travels and adventures written from the memory of the author, Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock. He covers the incidents in camping, hunting, trapping, and fishing in the wilderness of Northern Pennsylvania and several other states from 1855–1905. Many of the wild places described in this book are now State Parks and Forests. The book is written in plain language, about deer and bear hunting; trapping bear, wild cat, fox, marten, mink and muskrat; run-ins with porcupines and skunks; mishaps that happened to himself and his partners; and the everyday occurrences of camp life.