A campout just isn't a campout unless it has proper lighting. A big part of the fun for a family camp out is a lantern by the picnic table, hanging off a tree or a lantern just outside your tent. Some great memories can happen there. And of course the Coleman lantern is the most popular and recognized name in camping lanterns. At campersbackpack.com, we have one of the most extensive offerings of Coleman fuel lanterns and Coleman electric lanterns to be found anywhere. You certainly won't find this many options at your local store. WE ALSO HAVE AVAILABLE A LOT MORE THAN IS LISTED HERE. IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR LANTERN PARTS, CLICK ONE OF THE LINKS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE. Plus we also have an excellent selection of Princeton Tec head lamps which are great for the deep woods camping enthusiast and flashlights. So if you need a camping lantern to round out your camping list, explore the savings below. We can help brighten up your camp site.
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A man with poor eyesight but remarkable vision.
The history of Coleman Lanterns.
It started as simply as this: In 1900, a young man bent on replenishing his educational funds so he could complete his last year of law school set out to sell lamps in what is now Kingfisher, Oklahoma. He had first encountered the lamp that would change the course of his life in a drugstore window in Alabama. Plagued with such poor vision he sometimes had to ask classmates to read aloud to him, the brilliant light from that window stopped W.C. Coleman in his tracks. He went in to inquire about it and discovered he was able to read even the small print on a medicine bottle by this light.
The lamps had mantles, not wicks, and were fueled by gasoline under pressure instead of coal oil. Their light was clean and white. And when Coleman heard the company was looking for salesmen, he used the funds he'd accumulated to buy inventory. He could sell these lamps in a flash to merchants who wanted to keep their shops open in the evening.
As it turned out, he couldn't sell even one. Merchants in Kingfisher had just been stung by a lighting salesman with a less-than-stellar product. Shopkeepers would not be swayed. So, using the ingenuity and resourcefulness that would later build his company, W.C. decided to sell a lighting service instead of the lamps themselves. He drew up contracts with a "no light, no pay" clause and, with the risk removed, customers signed up.
Soon Kingfisher was a beacon on the prairie. The service eventually expanded to cities as far west as San Diego and Las Vegas. In 1902, Coleman relocated to Wichita, Kansas, reasoning it would be about the center of his potential territory. As it turned out, his territory would one day come to encompass the world.
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