CONTENTS

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Foreword v
I. Where to Find Mountain Goose. How to Pick and Use Its Feathers 1
II. The Half-Cave Shelter 7
III. How to Make the Fallen-Tree Shelter and the Scout-Master 11
IV. How to Make the Adirondack, the Wick-Up, the Bark Teepee, the Pioneer, and the Scout 15
V. How to Make Beaver-Mat Huts, or Fagot Shacks, without Injury to the Trees 18
VI. Indian Shacks and Shelters 22
VII. Birch Bark or Tar Paper Shack 27
VIII. Indian Communal Houses 31
IX. Bark and Tar Paper 36
X. A Sawed-Lumber Shanty 39
XI. A Sod House for the Lawn 47
XII. How to Build Elevated Shacks, Shanties, and Shelters 52
XIII. The Bog Ken 54
XIV. Over-Water Camps 62
XV. Signal-Tower, Game Lookout, and Rustic Observatory 65
XVI. Tree-Top Houses 72
XVII. Caches 77
XVIII. How to Use an Axe 83
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
XX. Axemen's Camps 92
XXI. Railroad-Tie Shacks, Barrel Shacks, and Chimehuevis 96
XXII. The Barabara 100
XXIII. The Navajo Hogan, Hornaday Dugout, and Sod House 104
XXIV. How to Build an American Boy's Hogan 107
XXV. How to Cut and Notch Logs 115
XXVI. Notched Log Ladders 119
XXVII. A Pole House. How to Use a Cross-Cut Saw and a Froe 122
XXVIII. Log-Rolling and Other Building Stunts 126
XXIX. The Adirondack Open Log Camp and a One-Room Cabin 129
XXX. The Northland Tilt and Indian Log Tent 132
XXXI. How to Build the Red Jacket, the New Brunswick, and the Christopher Gist 135
XXXII. Cabin Doors and Door-Latches, Thumb-Latches and Foot Latches and How to Make Them

Shelters,
Shacks, and Shanties


SHELTERS, SHACKS,
AND SHANTIES


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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