“Properly dressed for the woods, and not overburdened, the average woman can keep up anywhere with the average man; but in a tight or draggy skirt she is simply hopeless. For real wilderness travel riding breeches, cut full at the knee, are far better than a skirt. A buttoned skirt that can be slipped on readily may be worn over them on occasion, as when approaching some village or camp where people are not yet civilized enough to approve common sense in a woman’s costume. Alice MacGowan was fairly driven out of a mountain county in Kentucky because she wore riding breeches, and yet many’s the time I have seen a mountain woman riding astride a man’s saddle in an undivided long skirt. O Modesty, what crimes have been committed in thy name!”