Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties: And How to Make Them - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Skyhorse PublishingISBN-13:9781616081348ISBN-10:1616081341UPC:9781616081348Book Category:House & HomeBook Subcategory:Design & Construction, Do-It-Yourself, Sustainable LivingBook Topic:CarpentrySize:7.40 x 5.30 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCAP1ACMFF
Here is the original 19th century manual that helped pioneering Americans homestead a continent--with detailed instructions on how to build birch bark or tar paper shacks, a sawed-lumber shanty, a sod house, log cabins and much more. Whether you are a student of history, a screenwriter looking for authentic details or a modern homesteader looking for authentic advice on how to build the way our grandparents did, then D.C. Beard's manual is just what you're looking for. It includes information on:
Go back to basics with this classic of American ingenuity
- How to use an axe
- How to split logs
- How to flatten a log
- How to build a Navajo Hogan
- How to cut and notch logs
- How to build a notched ladder
- How to make cabin doors and door-latches.
- The American log cabin
- A Fisherman's cabin
- And much, much more.
Go back to basics with this classic of American ingenuity
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Skyhorse PublishingISBN-13:9781616081348ISBN-10:1616081341UPC:9781616081348Book Category:House & HomeBook Subcategory:Design & Construction, Do-It-Yourself, Sustainable LivingBook Topic:CarpentrySize:7.40 x 5.30 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCAP1ACMFF
Daniel Carter Beard (1850-1941) was an author, illustrator, and founder of two societies for boys--the Sons of Daniel Boone in 1905 and the Boy Scouts of America in 1910. He authored and illustrated more than twenty books, including The American Boys Handy Book.
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