Ebook: Shelters, shacks, and shanties: and how to make them

Where to find mountain goose. How to pick and use its feathers -- The half-cave shelter -- How to make the fallen-tree shelter and the scout-master -- How to make the Adirondack, the wick-up, the bark teepee, the pioneer, and the scout -- How to make beaver-mat huts, or fagot shacks, without injury to the trees -- Indian shacks and shelters -- Birch bark or tar paper shack -- Indian communal houses -- Bark and tar paper -- A sawed-lumber shanty -- A sod house for the lawn -- How to build elevated shacks, shanties, and shelters -- The bog ken -- Over-water camps -- Signal-tower, game lookout, and rustic observatory -- Tree-top houses -- Caches -- How to use an axe -- How to split lots, make shakes, splits, or clapboards. How to chop a log in half. How to flatten a log. Also some don'ts -- Axemen's camps -- Railroad-tie shacks, barrel shacks, and chimehuevis -- The barabara -- The Navajo hogan, Hornaday dugout, and sod house -- How to build an American boy's hogan -- How to cut and notch logs -- Notched log ladders -- A pole house. How to use a cross-cut saw and a froe -- Log-rolling and other building stunts -- The Adirondack open log camp and a one-room cabin -- The northland tilt and Indian log tent -- How to build the red jacket, the New Brunswick, and the Christopher gist -- Cabin doors and door-latches, thumb-latches and foot latches and how to make them -- Secret locks -- How to make the bow-arrow cabin door and latch and the Deming twin bolts, hall, and billy -- The aures lock latch -- The American log cabin -- A hunter's or fisherman's cabin -- Hot to make Wyoming olebo, a Hoko River olebo, a shake cabin, a Canadian mossback, and a two-pen or southern style saddle-bag house -- Native names for the parts of a Kanuck log cabin, and how to build one -- How to make a pole house and how to make a unique but thoroughly American totem log house -- How to build a Susitna log cabin and how to cut trees for the end plates -- How to make a fireplace and chimney for a simple log cabin -- Hearthstones and fireplaces -- More hearths and fireplaces -- Fireplaces and the art of tending the fire -- The building of the log house -- How to lay a tar paper, birch bark, or patent roofing -- How to make a concealed log cabin inside of a modern house -- How to build appropriate gateways for grounds enclosing long houses, game preserves, ranches, big country estates, and last but no least Boy Scouts' camp grounds.