The Boy Pioneers: Sons of Daniel Boone (Classic Reprint)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Beard, D.C.

Crafts & Hobbies

Forgotten Books

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.

Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties: The Classic Guide to Building Wilderness Shelters (Dover Crafts: Building & Construction)

Self-Help

Dover Publications

In "Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties", Daniel Beard, an early leader of the Boy Scouts of America, teaches readers how to build a large variety of practical shelters using either a hatchet or an axe. There are over 50 different shelters described, including lean-tos, teepees, hogans, bark houses, a sod house, stilt houses, tree houses, one room log cabins, and large log houses. 332 illustrations that detail the construction of the shelters make this an excellent book for all ages.

Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties: An Illustrated Guide to Wilderness Shelters

Sports & Outdoors

Hiking & Camping

J. Missouri

First published in 1914, Daniel Carter Beard’s “Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties” is the definitive guide to building survival shelters in the outdoors. Beard was the founding member of the Sons of Daniel Boone in 1905, which merged with the Boy Scouts of America upon its founding in 1910. Beard began his career as an engineer and surveyor, as well as a trained artist, and he illustrated many works, including some for Mark Twain. He was also an avid outdoorsman, youth leader, social reformer, and prolific author of articles and books for the Boy Scouts, as well as wilderness and survival guides. In his "Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties” Beard provides detailed and easy to understand instruction on how to build everything including a teepee, a log cabin, a tree house, and a beaver hut. This invaluable guide helps the reader to build any manner of essential shelter in numerous difficult environments without requiring any more special training than the ability to use an axe. As useful as it was when first written over 100 years ago, this brilliant guide belongs in the library of every outdoor adventurer. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties

Reference

Digireads.com Publishing

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Boat-building and Boating

Water Sports

Davies Pr

Although this fine book was meant orginaly for boys to build something beyond a scrap lumber club house, or create something more interesting out of a pile of loose brush, than a child's imagined fort, the wisdom is ageless for all to apply as a survival skill, or a temporary refuge. This is a practical, hands-on guide by one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America and a joy to read.Over 332 illustrations and clear, easy-to-follow text make this an invaluable book.

Shelters,Shacks and Shanties (Elemental Historic Preparedness Collection)

Children's Books

Activities, Crafts & Games

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

As this book is written for boys of all ages, it has been divided under two general heads, "The Tomahawk Camps" and "The Axe Camps," that is, camps which may be built with no tool but a hatchet, and camps that will need the aid of an axe.The smallest boys can build some of the simple shelters and the older boys can build the more difficult ones. The reader may, if he likes, begin with the first of the book, build his way through it, and graduate by building the log houses; in doing this he will be closely following the history of the human race, because ever since our arboreal ancestors with prehensile toes scampered among the branches of the pre-glacial forests and built nestlike shelters in the trees, men have made themselves shacks for a temporary refuge. But as one of the members of the Camp-Fire Club of America, as one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America, and as the founder of the Boy Pioneers of America, it would not be proper for the author to admit for one moment that there can be such a thing as a camp without a camp-fire, and for that reason the tree folks and the "missing link" whose remains were found in Java, and to whom the scientists gave the awe-inspiring name of Pithecanthropus erectus, cannot be counted as campers, because they did not know how to build a camp-fire; neither can we admit the ancient maker of stone implements, called eoliths, to be one of us, because he, too, knew not the joys of a camp-fire. But there was another fellow, called the Neanderthal man, who lived in the ice age in Europe and he had to be a camp-fire man or freeze! As far as we know, he was the first man to build a camp-fire. The cold weather made him hustle, and hustling developed him. True, he did cook and eat his neighbors once in a while, and even split their bones for the marrow; but we will forget that part and just remember him as the first camper in Europe.

Shelters, Shacks and Shanties

CONTENTS CHAPTER    Foreword  I. Where to Find Mountain Goose. How to Pick and Use Its Feathers  II. The Half-Cave Shelter  III. How to Make the Fallen-Tree Shelter and the Scout-Master  IV. How to Make the Adirondack, the Wick-Up, the Bark Teepee, the Pioneer, and the Scout  V. How to Make Beaver-Mat Huts, or Fagot Shacks, without Injury to the Trees  VI. Indian Shacks and Shelters  VII. Birch Bark or Tar Paper Shack  VIII. Indian Communal Houses  IX. Bark and Tar Paper  X. A Sawed-Lumber Shanty  XI. A Sod House for the Lawn  XII. How to Build Elevated Shacks, Shanties, and Shelters  XIII. The Bog Ken     XIV. Over-Water Camps  XV. Signal-Tower, Game Lookout, and Rustic Observatory  XVI. Tree-Top Houses  XVII. Caches  XVIII. How to Use an Axe  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  XX. Axemen's Camps  XXI. Railroad-Tie Shacks, Barrel Shacks, and Chimehuevis  XXII. The Barabara  XXIII. The Navajo Hogan, Hornaday Dugout, and Sod House  XXIV. How to Build an American Boy's Hogan  XXV. How to Cut and Notch Logs  XXVI. Notched Log Ladders  XXVII. A Pole House. How to Use a Cross-Cut Saw and a Froe  XXVIII. Log-Rolling and Other Building Stunts  XXIX. The Adirondack Open Log Camp and a One-Room Cabin     XXX. The Northland Tilt and Indian Log Tent  XXXI. How to Build the Red Jacket, the New Brunswick, and the Christopher Gist  XXXII. Cabin Doors and Door-Latches, Thumb-Latches and Foot Latches and How to Make Them  XXXIII. Secret Locks  XXXIV. How to Make the Bow-Arrow Cabin Door and Latch and the Deming Twin Bolts, Hall, and Billy  XXXV. The Aures Lock Latch  XXXVI. The American Log Cabin  XXXVII. A Hunter's or Fisherman's Cabin  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  XXXIX. Native Names for the Parts of a Kanuck Log Cabin, and How to Build One  XL. How to Make a Pole House and How to Make a Unique but Thoroughly American Totem Log House  XLI. How to Build a Susitna Log Cabin and How to Cut Trees for the End Plates     XLII. How to Make a Fireplace and Chimney for a Simple Log Cabin  XLIII. Hearthstones and Fireplaces  XLIV. More Hearths and Fireplaces  XLV. Fireplaces and the Art of Tending the Fire  XLVI. The Building of the Log House  XLVII. How to Lay a Tar Paper, Birch Bark, or Patent Roofing  XLVIII. How to Make a Concealed Log Cabin Inside of a Modern House  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

One of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America, Beard provides a hand-on guide for building a variety of habitable structures in the wilderness and other difficult environments. Practical, hands-on guide by one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America contains a wealth of information and advice on how to build everything from a bark tee pee and tree-top house to a log cabin and beaver mat hut. Over 332 illustrations and clear, easy-to-follow text make this an invaluable book.

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

Shelters, Shacks and Shanties is a hands-on guide for building dwellings in the wilderness, by one of the Boy Scouts of America, D.C. Beard.

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The Boy Pioneers: Sons of Daniel Boone (Classic Reprint)

Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties: The Classic Guide to Building Wilderness Shelters (Dover Crafts: Building & Construction)

Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties: An Illustrated Guide to Wilderness Shelters

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Shelters,Shacks and Shanties (Elemental Historic Preparedness Collection)

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

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