Chapter IV CAMP-FIRES AND THEIR IMPORTANCE—THE WASTEFUL WRONG WAY THEY ARE USUALLY MADE, AND THE RIGHT WAY TO MAKE THEM
I cannot stress enough how much Sears hates wall tents.
"No asthmatic or consumptive patient ever regained health by dwelling in a close, damp tent. [...] An experience of fifty years convinces me that a large percentage of the benefit obtained by invalids from camp life is attributable to the open camp and well-managed camp-fire."
On children and tourists with campfires:
The wood was thrown on endwise, crosswise, or any way, so that it would burn, precisely as a crowd of boys make a bonfire on the village green. The object being, apparently, to get rid of the wood in the shortest possible time.
I definitely remember being a 12 year old and seeing how many logs we could burn through in a camp night.
"It was in the "dark days before Christmas" How great would it be to spend the week before Christmas out camping (preferably in the snow, not that we have a ton of white Christmas's in Eastern PA these days) and come home to a big dinner and all your family and friends there?
Nessmuk advocates for something like a lean-to fire, seen here: 
Honestly, he says very little about how to build a light a fire. He spends as much describing one type of camp shelter as on the whole affair. Maybe a "Classics Guy Supplemental" will be needed.
