Indian Camp art unlike any other American writer of his time by showing that "the making of art is a matter of life or death, no less". Busch believes Hemingway's characters either faced life or chose death, a choice shown most starkly in "Indian Camp". The saving of a life in "Indian Camp" is at the center of much of Hemingway's fiction, Busch writes, and adds power to his fiction. Indian Camp "Indian Camp" is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway. The story was first published in 1924 in Ford Madox Ford's literary magazine "Transatlantic Review" in Paris and republished by
Bambi, a Life in the Woods Austria by Ullstein Verlag in 1923, and republished in 1926 in Vienna. Max Schuster, a co-founder of Simon & Schuster, became intrigued with the novel and contracted with the author to publish it in North America. Clifton Fadiman, an editor at the firm, engaged his Columbia University classmate Whittaker Chambers to translate it. Simon & Schuster published this first English edition in 1928, with illustrations by Kurt Wiese, under the title "Bambi. A Life in the Woods". "The New York Times" praised the prose as "admirably translated". The "New York Herald Tribune" did not comment on the translation. Over 200