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Shelters, Shacks and Shanties

by Daniel Carter Beard

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Contents

  1. Foreword
  2. Where to Find Mountain Goose. How to Pick and Use Its Feathers
  3. The Half-Cave Shelter
  4. How to Make the Fallen-Tree Shelter and the Scout-Master
  5. How to Make the Adirondack, the Wick-Up, the Bark Teepee, the Pioneer, and the Scout
  6. How to Make Beaver-Mat Huts or Fagot Shacks Without Injury to the Trees
  7. Indian Shacks and Shelters
  8. Birch Bark or Tar Paper Shack
  9. Indian Communal Houses
  10. Bark and Tar Paper
  11. A Sawed-Lumber Shanty
  12. A Sod House for the Lawn
  13. How to Build Elevated Shacks, Shanties, and Shelters
  14. The Bog Ken
  15. Over-Water Camps
  16. Signal-Tower, Game Lookout, and Rustic Observatory
  17. Tree-Top Houses
  18. Caches
  19. How to Use an Axe
  20. How to Split Logs, Make Shakes, Splits, or Clapboards. How to Chop a Log in Half. How to Flatten a Log. Also Some Don'ts
  21. Axemen's Camps
  22. Railroad-Tie Shacks, Barrel Shacks, and Chimehuevis
  23. The Barabara
  24. The Navajo Hogan, Hornaday Dugout, and Sod House
  25. How to Build an American Boy's Hogan
  26. How to Cut and Notch Logs
  27. Notched Log Ladders
  28. A Pole House. How to Use a Cross-Cut Saw and a Froe
  29. Log-Rolling and Other Building Stunts
  30. The Adirondack Open Log Camp and a One-Room Cabin
  31. The Northland Tilt and Indian Log Tent
  32. How to Build the Red Jacket, the New Brunswick, and the Christopher Gist
  33. Cabin Doors and Door-Latches, Thumb-Latches and Foot Latches and How to Make Them
  34. Secret Locks
  35. How to Make the Bow-Arrow Cabin Door and Latch and the Deming Twin Bolts, Hall, and Billy
  36. The Aures Lock Latch
  37. The American Log Cabin
  38. A Hunter's or Fisherman's Cabin
  39. How to Make a Wyoming Olebo, a Hoko River Olebo, a Shake Cabin, a Canadian Mossback, and a Two-Pen or Southern Saddle-Bag House
  40. Native Names for the Parts of a Kanuck Log Cabin, and How to Build One
  41. How to Make a Pole House and How to Make a Unique but Thoroughly American Totem Log House
  42. How to Build a Susitna Log Cabin and How to Cut Trees for the End Plates
  43. How to Make a Fireplace and Chimney for a Simple Log Cabin
  44. Hearthstones and Fireplaces
  45. More Hearths and Fireplaces
  46. Fireplaces and the Art of Tending the Fire
  47. The Building of the Log House
  48. How to Lay a Tar Paper, Birch Bark, or Patent Roofing
  49. How to Make a Concealed Log Cabin Inside of a Modern House
  50. How to Build Appropriate Gateways for Grounds Enclosing Log Houses, Game Preserves, Ranches, Big Country Estates, and Last but Not Least Boy Scouts' Camp Grounds
  51. Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties
  52. The Boy Pioneers
  53. The Field and Forest Handy Book
  54. The Jack of All Trades
  55. The Outdoor Handy Book
  56. The American Boys Handy Book
  57. Handicraft and Recreation for Girls
  58. What a Girl Can Make and Do
  59. The American Girl's Handy Book
  60. Things Worth Doing and How To Do Them

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