the photos are in a book of reprints from outdoor magazines in the 1890-1910 era.some true and some just rousing stories like this one about the trapper Peter Noel.driven from his burning cabin in the depths of the winter he tries to make his way to a lumber camp some fifty miles away.all he came out of the raging fire with was his jacket,sort of a BOB with matches,knife,mitts.out the door he grabbed his rifle,blankets and larrigan's,a kind of soft boot.the three things he lost that were important to him were his ax,snowshoes and cooking pot were all lost in the fire.for the sake of the story he could not find the ax head but did pull out a lump of charred bacon that was left over from a big side he had,he ate the fist size bit first and went off to get help.



i thought the story would have more details about he survived on just those items on his walk to the lumber camp but whoever the Charles Roberts was he was no 1900 version of Bear Grylls.