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We’ve Been Strapping Cargo to Our Backs for Millions of Years, but Backpack Innovation Really Took Off Around the Civil War

Discover the origin story for an accessory being comfortably lugged by nearly every hiker and student, with about 450 million sold each year

We’ve Been Strapping Cargo to Our Backs for Millions of Years, but Backpack Innovation Really Took Off Around the Civil War

We haven't written up this one. Smithsonian has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

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