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Shelters, Shacks & Shanties: And How to Build Them by D. C. Beard click to enlarge

Shelters, Shacks & Shanties: And How to Build Them

D. C. Beard
Caught in the open overnight, or wanting to move to the wilderness? Here is lively, step-by-step tutelage on building all types of temporary and long-term accommodations from both natural and man-made materials. Originally published in 1914 as an essential guide for the homesteader and mountain-man. Lots of plans.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

1. Where to Find Mountain Goose, How to Pick & Use Its Feathers
2. The Half-Cave Shelter
3. How to Make the Fallen-Tree Shelter & the Scout Master
4. How to Make the Adirondack, the Wick-Up, the Bark Teepee, the Pioneer & the Scout
5. How to Make Beaver-Mat Huts or Fagot Shelters Without Harm to the Tree
6. Indian Shacks & Shelters
7. Birchbark or Tarpaper Shacks
8. Indian Communal Houses
9. Bark & Tar Paper
10. A Sawed-Lumber Shanty
11. A Sod House for the Lawn
12. How to Build Elevated Shacks, Shanties & Shelters
13. The Bog Ken
14. Over Water Camps
15. Signal Tower
16. Tree-Top Houses
17. Caches
18. Axemen's Camps
19. Barabara
20. How to Build an American Boy's Hogan
21. How to Cut & Notch Logs
22. A Pole House
23. Log-Rolling & Other Building Stunts
24. The Adirondack Open Log Camp & a One-Room Cabin
25. Cabin Doors & Latches, Thumb-Latches, & Foot Latches
26. Secret Locks
27. The Aures Lock Latch
28. The American Log Cabin
29. How to Make a Wyoming Olebo
30. Hearthstones & Fireplaces
31. How to Lay a Tarpaper, Birchbark, or Patent Roofing
32. How to Build Appropriate Gateways for...

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