Originally published: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914
Contents:
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 homes 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-towers, game lookout, and rustic observatory Caches How to use an axe 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 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 corss-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 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 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 a modern house 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
