When your goal is to win, the West is a vacation he has no doubts about what to do. Only the rain has been away there is a trout stream that he has been intending to try for several years. He is now the guest of the board, bitches up his team of native amusements and arrives at his desired height stream in two days without fatigue. He knows how to take care of himself and have a good time outdoors. And to that familiarity of his with the mountains and seas you may take much of what is best and most typical in him - his breadth of thought, his physical stamina, his resolute love of freedom.

Now there is no denying that there are many good amateur woodsmen in the East, but numerically they are the most handful. The typical Easterner is about submerged in his own urban existence. Turn him loose in the woof and he is lost and miserable. Give him freedom and he does not know what to do with it. He falls heavily back upon the resort hotel, which is very well for women and children and invalids, but surely reveals a lack of all imagination and spirit of adventure in youth and manhood.

So the East has something to learn from the West, and this is the nut. 