Shelters, Shacks and Shanties : And How to Build Them

by D.C. Beard; Foreword by Noel Perrin

• ISBN13: 9781558219526
• ISBN10: 1558219528
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1999-08-01
• Publisher: The Lyons Press

Summary

Shelters, Shacks and Shanties presents 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, this practical classic is as essential a guide for today's modern homesteader as it was at the turn of the century. Here are instructions for dozens of worry-free shelters including a sod house for the lawn, a treetop house, over- water camps, a bog ken, and much more. Satisfying the builder's need for the creature comforts of home, it also provides tips on how to build hearths and chimneys, notched log ladders, and even how to rig a front door with a secret lock. Illustrated throughout with a bounty of helpful line drawings, Shelters, Shacks and Shanties harkens back to the can-do spirit of the American frontier that still thrives today.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
Preface	xv
Where to Find Mountain Goose. How to Pick and Use Its Feathers	1	(6)
The Half-Cave Shelter	7	(4)
How to Make the Fallen-Tree Shelter and the Scout-Master	11	(4)
How to Make the Adirondack, the Wick-Up, the Bark Teepee, the Pioneer, and the Scout	15	(3)
How to Make Beaver-Mat Huts, Or Fagot Shacks, Without Injury to the Trees	18	(4)
Indian Shacks and Shelters	22	(5)
Birch Bark or Tar Paper Shack	27	(4)
Indian Communal Houses	31	(5)
Bark and Tar Paper	36	(3)
A Sawed-Lumber Shanty	39	(8)
A Sod House For the Lawn	47	(5)
How to Build Elevated Shacks, Shanties, and Shelters	52	(2)
The Bog Ken	54	(8)
Over-Water Camps	62	(3)
Signal-Tower, Game Lookout, and Rustic Observatory	65	(7)
Tree-Top Houses	72	(5)
Caches	77	(6)
How to Use An Axe	83	(4)
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	(5)
Axemen's Camps	92	(4)
Railroad-Tie Shacks, Barrel Shacks, and Chimehuevis	96	(4)
The Barabara	100	(4)
The Navajo Hogan, Hornaday Dugout, and Sod House	104	(3)
How to Build An American Boy's Hogan	107	(8)
How to Cut and Notch Logs	115	(4)
Notched Log Ladders	119	(3)
A Pole House. How to Use A Cross-Cut Saw and A Froe	122	(4)
Log-Rolling and Other Building Stunts	126	(3)
The Adirondack Open Log Camp and A One-Room Cabin	129	(3)
The Northland Tilt and Indian Log Tent	132	(3)
How to Build the Red Jacket, the New Brunswick, and the Christopher Gist	135	(4)
Cabin Doors and Door-Latches, Thumb-Latches and Foot Latches and How to Make Them	139	(6)
Secret Locks	145	(6)
How to Make the Bow-Arrow Cabin Door and Latch and the Deming Twin Bolts, Hall, and Billy	151	(4)
The Aures Lock Latch	155	(6)
The American Log Cabin	161	(8)
A Hunter's or Fisherman's Cabin	169	(2)
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	(6)
Native Names For the Parts of A Kanuck Log Cabin, and How to Build One	177	(6)
How to Make A Pole House and How to Make A Unique But Thoroughly American Totem Log House	183	(8)
How to Build A Susitna Log Cabin and How to Cut Trees For the End Plates	191	(4)
How to Make A Fireplace and Chimney For A Simple Log Cabin	195	(5)
Hearthstones and Fireplaces	200	(3)
More Hearths and Fireplaces	203	(3)
Fireplaces and the Art of Tending the Fire	206	(5)
The Building of the Log House	211	(7)
How to Lay A Tar Paper, Birch Bark, Or Patent Roofing	218	(12)
How to Make A Concealed Log Cabin Inside of A Modern House	230	(7)
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