An edition of Shelters, shacks, and shanties and how to build them
(2011)
Shelters, shacks, and shanties and how to build them
by Daniel Carter Beard
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A practical and essential guide for anyone looking to build on their homestead using skills and tools that were available to the homesteaders of days gone by.
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Sheds, Huts, Design and construction, Wilderness survival, Log cabins, Toolshed, HutsulsShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Shelters, shacks, and shanties and how to build them
2011, Skyhorse Pub.
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1616081341 9781616081348
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Table of Contents
Where to find mountain goose. How to pick and use its feathers
The half-cave shelter
How to make the fallen-tree shelter and the scout-master
How to make the Adirondack, the wick-up, the bark teepee, the pioneer, and the scout
How to make beaver-mat huts, or fagot shacks, without injury to the trees
Indian shacks and shelters
Birch bark or tar paper shack
Indian communal houses
Bark and tar paper
A sawed-lumber shanty
A sod house for the lawn
How to build elevated shacks, shanties, and shelters
The bog ken
Over-water camps
Signal-tower, game lookout, and rustic observatory
Tree-top houses
Caches
How to use an axe
How to split lots, make shakes, splits, or clapboards. How to chop a log in half. How to flatten a log. Also some don'ts
Axemen's camps
Railroad-tie shacks, barrel shacks, and chimehuevis
The barabara
The Navajo hogan, Hornaday dugout, and sod house
How to build an American boy's hogan
How to cut and notch logs
Notched log ladders
A pole house. How to use a cross-cut saw and a froe
Log-rolling and other building stunts
The Adirondack open log camp and a one-room cabin
The northland tilt and Indian log tent
How to build the red jacket, the New Brunswick, and the Christopher gist
Cabin doors and door-latches, thumb-latches and foot latches and how to make them
Secret locks
How to make the bow-arrow cabin door and latch and the Deming twin bolts, hall, and billy
The aures lock latch
The American log cabin
A hunter's or fisherman's cabin
Hot to make Wyoming olebo, a Hoko River olebo, a shake cabin, a Canadian mossback, and a two-pen or southern style saddle-bag house
Native names for the parts of a Kanuck log cabin, and how to build one
How to make a pole house and how to make a unique but thoroughly American totem log house
How to build a Susitna log cabin and how to cut trees for the end plates
How to make a fireplace and chimney for a simple log cabin
Hearthstones and fireplaces
More hearths and fireplaces
Fireplaces and the art of tending the fire
The building of the log house
How to lay a tar paper, birch bark, or patent roofing
How to make a concealed log cabin inside of a modern house
How to build appropriate gateways for grounds enclosing long houses, game preserves, ranches, big country estates, and last but no least Boy Scouts' camp grounds.
Edition Notes
Originally published: Shelters, shacks, and shanties / Daniel Carter Beard. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914.
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