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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.

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;... Read Full Overview

Everyone Needs A Good Shelter in the Woods

Enjoy this unabridged, high-quality Doublebit Legacy reprint of Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties: Dan Beard's classic book on cabin life. Dive into hundreds of illustrations of everything ranging from rustic... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

Shows how to build sod houses, over-water camps, railroad tie shacks, Navaho hogans, and log cabins, and offers advice on using an axe, building a fireplace, and starting a fire

Everyone Needs A Good Shelter in the Woods

Enjoy this unabridged, high-quality Doublebit Legacy reprint of Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties Dan Beard's classic book on cabin life. Dive into hundreds of illustrations of everything ranging from rustic... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

This one-of-a-kind manual compiled by a seminal Boy Scouts of America founder is full to the brim with detailed instructions and tips for constructing of a wide variety of wilderness shelters. Structures you'll learn to design and erect range from bark teepees and bog kens... Read Full Overview