Hemingway's 'Big Two-Hearted River' Equipment List

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~DRBR/hem_river.html

The Nick Adams basic equipment list for camping and fishing:

• backpack
• bedding
• leather fishing rod case
• cigarettes
• map
• shoes
• wool socks
• trousers
• belt
• khaki shirt
• hat
• ax
• three blankets
• canvas tent
• rope
• cheesecloth to keep mosquitoes out of tent
• paper sack of long nails
• can of pork and beans
• can of spaghetti
• frying pan
• wire grill with legs, used to cook over the fire
• spoon
• large, folding knife for slicing bread and cleaning fish
• tomato catchup
• bread
• tin plate
• folding canvas bucket to haul water from the stream
• coffee
• coffee pot
• can of apricots
• tin cup
• sugar
• matches
• bottle to hold grasshoppers that were used for trout fishing bait
• buckwheat flour for flapjacks - one cup of flour, one cup of water
• can of cooking grease
• apple butter
• oiled paper to hold food
• big onion for onion sandwiches
• condensed milk
• fly rod
• fishing reel
• fishing line
• aluminum box of leaders
• "book" of fishing hooks
• fish landing net
• long flour sack held together with a cord to hold caught fish

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