Shelters, Shacks, And Shanties
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Published: 1920
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: Foreword v; title: I. Where to Find Mountain Goose. How to Pick and Use Its Feathers    i; title: II. The Half-Cave Shelter 7; title: III. How to Make the Fallen-Tree Shelter and the Scout-Master     11; title: IV. How to Make the Adirondack, the Wick-Up, the Bark Teepee, the Pioneer, and the Scout 15; title: V. How to Make Beaver-Mat Huts, or Fagot Shacks, without Injury to the Trees 18; title: VI. Indian Shacks and Shelters   22; title: VII. Birch Bark or Tar Paper Shack  27; title: VIII. Indian Communal Houses     31; title: IX. Bark and Tar Paper 36; title: X. A Sawed-Lumber Shanty 39; title: XI. A Sod House for the Lawn 47; title: XII. How to Build Elevated Shacks, Shanties, and Shelters   52; title: XIII. The Bog Ken 54; title: XIV. Over-Water Camps 62; title: XV. Signal-Tower, Game Lookout, and Rustic Observatory 65; title: XVI. Tree-Top Houses 72; title: XVII. Caches 77; title: XVIII. How to Use an Axe 83; title: 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; title: XX. Axemen's Camps 92; title: XXI. Railroad-Tie Shacks, Barrel Shacks,and Chimehuevis 96; title: XXII. The Barabara 100; title: XXIII. The Navajo Hogan, Hornaday Dug-out, and Sod House 104; title: XXIV. How to Build an American Boy's Hogan 107; title: XXV. How to Cut and Notch Logs   115; title: XXVI. Notched Log Ladders     119; title: XXVII. A Pole House. How to Use a Cross-cut Saw and a Froe 122; title: XXVIII. Log-Rolling and Other Building Stunts 126; title: XXIX. The Adirondack Open Log Camp and a One-Room Cabin    129; title: XXX. The Northland Tilt and Indian Log Tent   132; title: XXXI. How to Build the Red Jacket, the New Brunswick, and the Christopher Gist 135; title: XXXII. Cabin Doors and Door-Latches, Thumb-Latches and Foot Latches and How to Make Them 4 139; title: XXXIII. Secret Locks 145; title: XXXIV. How to Make the Bow-Arrow Cabin Door and Latch and the Deming Twin Bolts, Hall, and Billy   151; title: XXXV. The Aures Lock Latch     155; title: XXXVI. The American Log Cabin 161; title: XXXVII. A Hunter's or Fisherman's Cabin   169; title: 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; title: XXXIX. Native Names for the Parts of a Kanuck Log Cabin, and How to Build One 177; title: XL. How to Make a Pole House and How to Make a Unique but Thoroughly American Totem Log House     183; title: XLI. How to Build a Susitna Log Cabin and How to Cut Trees for the End Plates 191; title: XLII. How to Make a Fireplace and Chimney for A Simple Log Cabin   195; title: XLIII. Hearthstones and Fireplaces    200; title: XLIV. More Hearths and Fireplaces   203; title: XLV. Fireplaces and the Art of Tending the Fire 206; title: XLVI. The Building of the Log House   211; title: XLVII. How to Lay a Tar Paper, Birch Bark, or Patent Roofing      218; title: XLVIII. How to Make a Concealed Log Cabin Inside of a Modern House    230; title: 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