With the arrival of the motorcar the American woodcraft movement, begun after books by "Nessmuk" and others in the 1880s, expanded into quite an industry. Horace Kephart, Ernest Thompson Seton, Stewart Edward White, and John Muir addressed both the practicalities and the romance of heading into the woods for a time, to escape the stress and baleful influence of modern society and enjoy the more "real" pleasures of time spent under canvas. Indeed, the idea of camping as a leisure activity really only gained traction in the early 20th century, with advances in equipment design. Attachments turned the family car into a fairly spacious tent and outfitters like Abercrombie & Fitch flourished (long before it turned into a teenage fashion factory). These days Americans in motorhomes head south to Florida, rather than folks in flivvers* fleeing to Tennessee, but the idea is the same: cars meant that ordinary people could leave the harshness of northern winters behind them. This 1926 number with a tune by the great Harry Woods captures that excitement of escaping the humdrum without dwelling on the potential pitfalls. Miss Lee Morse & Her Blue Grass Boys released a fine version that same year, with a very slight change to the title: https://youtu.be/JFgiV8fHJBo #Ukulele #1920s #TentingTonight *A rickety old jalopy