Doomsday Defense

Book · 1914

Shelters, Shacks and Shanties

by D. C. Beard (Daniel Carter Beard)

Historical text. Cutting live trees and building structures is restricted or illegal on most public land today. Practice on your own property or with the landowner's permission.

Dan Beard, a founder of the Boy Scouts of America, drew every illustration in this book himself. It moves from “tomahawk camps” a child can build with a hatchet (half-cave shelters, fallen-tree shelters, lean-tos) to “axe camps” and full log cabins, with notes on notching logs, chimneys and caches.

For emergency shelter priorities, start with our shelter notes, then use Beard’s drawings for the details.

Author
D. C. Beard (Daniel Carter Beard)
Published
1914, Charles Scribner's Sons
Topics
Shelter, Building & Construction, Knives, Axes & Tools
Rights
Public domain: published in the United States before 1930.
Transcription
Project Gutenberg eBook #28255

Contents

49 sections
  1. I — Where to Find Mountain Goose. How to Pick and Use Its Feathers
  2. II — The Half-cave Shelter
  3. III — How to Make the Fallen-tree Shelter and the Scout-master
  4. IV — How to Make the Adirondack, the Wick-up, the Bark Teepee, the Pioneer, and the…
  5. V — How to Make Beaver-mat Huts or Fagot Shacks Without Injury to the Trees
  6. VI — Indian Shacks and Shelters
  7. VII — Birch Bark or Tar Paper Shack
  8. VIII — Indian Communal Houses
  9. IX — Bark and Tar Paper
  10. X — A Sawed-lumber Shanty
  11. XI — A Sod House for the Lawn
  12. XII — How to Build Elevated Shacks, Shanties, and Shelters
  13. XIII — The Bog Ken
  14. XIV — Over-water Camps
  15. XV — Signal-tower, Game Lookout, and Rustic Observatory
  16. XVI — Tree-top Houses
  17. XVII — Caches
  18. XVIII — How to Use an Axe
  19. XIX — How to Split Logs, Make Shakes, Splits, or Clapboards. How to Chop a Log in…
  20. XX — Axemen's Camps
  21. XXI — Railroad-tie Shacks, Barrel Shacks, and Chimehuevis
  22. XXII — The Barabara
  23. XXIII — The Navajo Hogan, Hornaday Dugout, and Sod House
  24. XXIV — How to Build an American Boy's Hogan
  25. XXV — How to Cut and Notch Logs
  26. XXVI — Notched Log Ladders
  27. XXVII — A Pole House. How to Use a Cross-cut Saw and a Froe
  28. XXVIII — Log-rolling and Other Building Stunts
  29. XXIX — The Adirondack Open Log Camp and a One-room Cabin
  30. XXX — The Northland Tilt and Indian Log Tent
  31. Chapter XXXI — How to Build the Red Jacket, the New Brunswick, and the Christopher Gist
  32. XXXII — Cabin Doors and Door-latches, Thumb-latches and Foot Latches and How to Make…
  33. XXXIII — Secret Locks
  34. XXXIV — How to Make the Bow-arrow Cabin Door and Latch and the Deming Twin Bolts,…
  35. XXXV — The Aures Lock Latch
  36. XXXVI — The American Log Cabin
  37. XXXVII — A Hunter's or Fisherman's Cabin
  38. XXXVIII — How to Make a Wyoming Olebo, a Hoko River Olebo, a Shake Cabin, a Canadian…
  39. XXXIX — Native Names for the Parts of a Kanuck Log Cabin, and How to Build One
  40. XL — How to Make a Pole House and How to Make a Unique but Thoroughly American…
  41. XLI — How to Build a Susitna Log Cabin and How to Cut Trees for the End Plates
  42. XLII — How to Make a Fireplace and Chimney for a Simple Log Cabin
  43. XLIII — Hearthstones and Fireplaces
  44. XLIV — More Hearths and Fireplaces
  45. XLV — Fireplaces and the Art of Tending the Fire
  46. XLVI — The Building of the Log House
  47. XLVII — How to Lay a Tar Paper, Birch Bark, or Patent Roofing
  48. XLVIII — How to Make a Concealed Log Cabin Inside of a Modern House
  49. XLIX — How to Build Appropriate Gateways for Grounds Enclosing Log Houses, Game…

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