CONTENTS

Foreword v

I. Where to Find Mountain Goose. How to Pick and Use Its Feathers i

II. The Half-Cave Shelter 7

III. How to Make the Fallen-Tree Shelter and the Scout-Master 11

IV. How to Make the Adirondack, the Wick-Up, the Bark Teepee, the Pioneer, and the Scout 15

V. How to Make Beaver-Mat Huts, or Fagot Shacks, without Injury to the Trees 18

VI. Indian Shacks and Shelters 22

VII. Birch Bark or Tar Paper Shack 27

VIII. Indian Communal Houses 31

IX. Bark and Tar Paper 36

X. A Sawed-Lumber Shanty 39

XI. A Sod House for the Lawn 47

XII. How to Build Elevated Shacks, Shanties, and Shelters 52

XIII. The Bog Ken 54

XIV. Over-Water Camps 62

XV. Signal-Tower, Game Lookout, and Rustic Observatory 65

XVI. Tree-Top Houses 72

XVII. Caches 77

XVIII. How to Use an Axe 83

XIX. 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 87

XX. Axemen's Camps 92

XXI. Railroad-Tie Shacks, Barrel Shacks,and Chimehuevis 96

XXII. The Barabara 100

XXIII. The Navajo Hogan, Hornaday Dug-out, and Sod House 104

XXIV. How to Build an American Boy's Hogan 107

XXV. How to Cut and Notch Logs 115

XXVI. Notched Log Ladders 119

XXVII. A Pole House. How to Use a Cross-cut Saw and a Froe 122

XXVIII. Log-Rolling and Other Building Stunts 126

XXIX. The Adirondack Open Log Camp and a One-Room Cabin 129

XXX. The Northland Tilt and Indian Log Tent 132

XXXI. How to Build the Red Jacket, the New Brunswick, and the Christopher Gist 135

XXXII. Cabin Doors and Door-Latches, Thumb-Latches and Foot Latches and How to Make Them 4 139

XXXIII. Secret Locks 145

XXXIV. How to Make the Bow-Arrow Cabin Door and Latch and the Deming Twin Bolts, Hall, and Billy 151

XXXV. The Aures Lock Latch 155

XXXVI. The American Log Cabin 161

XXXVII. A Hunter's or Fisherman's Cabin 169

XXXVIII. 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 171

XXXIX. Native Names for the Parts of a Kanuck Log Cabin, and How to Build One 177

XL. How to Make a Pole House and How to Make a Unique but Thoroughly American Totem Log House 183

XLI. How to Build a Susitna Log Cabin and How to Cut Trees for the End Plates 191

XLII. How to Make a Fireplace and Chimney for A Simple Log Cabin 195

XLIII. Hearthstones and Fireplaces 200

XLIV. More Hearths and Fireplaces 203

XLV. Fireplaces and the Art of Tending the Fire 206

XLVI. The Building of the Log House 211

XLVII. How to Lay a Tar Paper, Birch Bark, or Patent Roofing 218

XLVIII. How to Make a Concealed Log Cabin Inside of a Modern House 230

XLIX. 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 237