Shelters, shacks, and shanties and how to build them
By: D.C. Beard ; foreword by Noel Perrin ; with illustrations by the author
Publisher: Skyhorse Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9781616081348
Subjects: Huts; Sheds; Wilderness survival; Log cabins; Design and construction
Description: 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.
Notes: Originally published: Shelters, shacks, and shanties / Daniel Carter Beard. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914.
Table of contents: title: Where to find mountain goose. How to pick and use its feathers; title: The half-cave shelter; title: How to make the fallen-tree shelter and the scout-master; title: How to make the Adirondack, the wick-up, the bark teepee, the pioneer, and the scout; title: How to make beaver-mat huts, or fagot shacks, without injury to the trees; title: Indian shacks and shelters; title: Birch bark or tar paper shack; title: Indian communal houses; title: Bark and tar paper; title: A sawed-lumber shanty; title: A sod house for the lawn; title: How to build elevated shacks, shanties, and shelters; title: The bog ken; title: Over-water camps; title: Signal-tower, game lookout, and rustic observatory; title: Tree-top houses; title: Caches; title: How to use an axe; title: 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; title: Axemen's camps; title: Railroad-tie shacks, barrel shacks, and chimehuevis; title: The barabara; title: The Navajo hogan, Hornaday dugout, and sod house; title: How to build an American boy's hogan; title: How to cut and notch logs; title: Notched log ladders; title: A pole house. How to use a cross-cut saw and a froe; title: Log-rolling and other building stunts; title: The Adirondack open log camp and a one-room cabin; title: The northland tilt and Indian log tent; title: How to build the red jacket, the New Brunswick, and the Christopher gist; title: Cabin doors and door-latches, thumb-latches and foot latches and how to make them; title: Secret locks; title: How to make the bow-arrow cabin door and latch and the Deming twin bolts, hall, and billy; title: The aures lock latch; title: The American log cabin; title: A hunter's or fisherman's cabin; title: 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; title: Native names for the parts of a Kanuck log cabin, and how to build one; title: How to make a pole house and how to make a unique but thoroughly American totem log house; title: How to build a Susitna log cabin and how to cut trees for the end plates; title: How to make a fireplace and chimney for a simple log cabin; title: Hearthstones and fireplaces; title: More hearths and fireplaces; title: Fireplaces and the art of tending the fire; title: The building of the log house; title: How to lay a tar paper, birch bark, or patent roofing; title: How to make a concealed log cabin inside of a modern house; title: 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.