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
Joshua Mason Macomber Joshua Mason Macomber Joshua Mason Macomber, A.M., M.D (J Mason Macomber), (October 11, 1811 – February 9, 1881) was a noted educator and a physician from New Salem, Massachusetts, United States. Macomber grew up Baptist in New Salem, Mass. He came in later life to be a Unitarian. Macomber attended Amherst College for 1 year and then Brown University, from which he received his undergraduate degree, A.M., 1835. He married Sarah A. Lee of Chester in 1838. During the time he was at Brown, he first came to Uxbridge, Massachusetts and worked at the Uxbridge Academy. He served in a