Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties: The Classic Guide to Building Wilderness Shelters

Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties: The Classic Guide to Building Wilderness Shelters

by Daniel Carter Beard
Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties: The Classic Guide to Building Wilderness Shelters

Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties: The Classic Guide to Building Wilderness Shelters

by Daniel Carter Beard

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Overview

This excellent hands-on guide by one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America contains a wealth of practical instruction and advice on how to build everything from a bark teepee and a tree-top house to a log cabin and a sod house. No professional architects are needed here; and knowing how to use an axe is more important than possessing carpentry skills.
More than 300 of the author's own illustrations and a clear, easy-to-follow text enable campers to create such lodgings as half-cave shelters, beaver mat huts, birch bark shacks, over-water camps, a Navajo hogan, and a pole house. Additional chapters provide information on how to use an axe, split and notch logs, make a fireplace, and even build appropriate gateways to log houses, game preserves, ranches, and other open areas.
An invaluable book for scouts, campers, hikers, and hunters of all ages, this guide and its fascinating collection of outdoor lore "still has intrinsic value," said Whole Earth Magazine, and will be of keen interest to any modern homesteader.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780486437477
Publisher: Dover Publications
Publication date: 09/10/2004
Series: Dover Crafts: Building & Construction
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Known as "Uncle Dan" to those who knew him well, Daniel Carter Beard (June 21, 1850-June 11, 1941) was a famed author, illustrator, and social champion. Inspired by the rugged traditions of the American frontier, Beard founded the Sons of Daniel Boone in 1905. Five years later, he merged the organization with the newly formed Boy Scouts of America.

Table of Contents

Forewordv
IWhere to Find Mountain Goose. How to Pick and Use Its Feathers1
IIThe Half-Cave Shelter7
IIIHow to Make the Fallen-Tree Shelter and the Scout-Master11
IVHow to Make the Adirondack, the Wick-Up, the Bark Teepee, the Pioneer, and the Scout15
VHow to Make Beaver-Mat Huts, or Fagot Shacks, without Injury to the Trees18
VIIndian Shacks and Shelters22
VIIBirch Bark or Tar Paper Shack27
VIIIIndian Communal Houses31
IXBark and Tar Paper36
XA Sawed-Lumber Shanty39
XIA Sod House for the Lawn47
XIIHow to Build Elevated Shacks, Shanties, and Shelters52
XIIIThe Bog Ken54
XIVOver-Water Camps62
XVSignal-Tower, Game Lookout, and Rustic Observatory65
XVITree-Top Houses72
XVIICahes77
XVIIIHow to Use an Axe83
XIXHow to Split Logs, Make Shakes, Splits, or Clapboards. How to Chop a Log in Half. How to Flatten a Log. Also Some Don'ts87
XXAxemen's Camps92
XXIRailroad-Tie Shacks, Barrel Shacks, and Chimehuevis96
XXIIThe Barabara100
XXIIIThe Navajo Hogan, Hornaday Dugout, and Sod House104
XXIVHow to Build an American Boy's Hogan107
XXVHow to Cut and Notch Logs115
XXVINotched Log Ladders119
XXVIIA Pole House. How to Use a Cross-Cut Saw and a Froe122
XXVIIILog-Rolling and Other Building Stunts126
XXIXThe Adirondack Open Log Camp and a One-Room Cabin129
XXXThe Northland Tilt and Indian Log Tent132
XXXIHow to Build the Red Jacket, the New Brunswick, and the Christopher Gist135
XXXIICabin Doors and Door-Latches, Thumb-Latches and Foot Latches and How to Make Them139
XXXIIISecret Locks145
XXXIVHow to Make the Bow-Arrow Cabin Door and Latch and the Deming Twin Bolts, Hall, and Billy151
XXXVThe Aures Lock Latch155
XXXVIThe American Log Cabin161
XXXVIIA Hunter's or Fisherman's Cabin169
XXXVIIIHow to Make a Wyoming Olebo, a Hoko River Olebo, a Shake Cabin, a Canadian Mossback, and a Two-Pen or Southern Saddle-Bag House171
XXXIXNative Names for the Parts of a Kanuck Log Cabin, and How to Build One177
XLHow to Make a Pole House and How to Make a Unique but Thoroughly American Totem Log House183
XLIHow to Build a Susitna Log Cabin and How to Cut Trees for the End Plates191
XLIIHow to Make a Fireplace and Chimney for a Simple Log Cabin195
XLIIIHearthstones and Fireplaces200
XLIVMore Hearths and Fireplaces203
XLVFireplaces and the Art of Tending the Fire206
XLVIThe Building of the Log House211
XLVIIHow to Lay a Tar Paper, Birch Bark, or Patent Roofing218
XLVIIIHow to Make a Concealed Log Cabin Inside of a Modern House230
XLIXHow to Build Appropriate Gateways for Grounds Enclosing Log Houses, Game Preserves, Ranches, Big Country Estates, and Last but not Least Boy Scouts' Camp Grounds237
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