| Foreword | v |
I | Where to Find Mountain Goose. How to Pick and Use Its Feathers | 1 |
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 | Cahes | 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 Dugout, 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 | 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 |