Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties: And How to Make Them

By Daniel Carter Beard

Book Overview

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:
How to use an axeHow to split logsHow to flatten a logHow to build a Navajo HoganHow to cut and notch logsHow to build a notched ladderHow to make cabin doors and door-latches.The American log cabinA Fisherman's cabinAnd much, much more.
Go back to basics with this classic of American ingenuity

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1616081341
• ISBN13: 9781616081348
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 7.4"

Customer Reviews

Great book on Cabins Great price its a good read

Great book on Cabins Great price its a good read worth the money

Well woth it

I'll tell you what, I got my money's worth out of this book and I expect to profit from the wisdoms between its covers as well. Buy it.

a must for your survivalist collection

Well written, easy to read, and full of details and pictures. Presented in a clear and concise manner this book will take you naked into the wilderness and give you the basics of survival structures but build you up to a full understanding of large permenant structures. a pleasure to read, recommend to everyone of all age groups.

Don't get lost without it!

Interesting book that shows dozens of ways to make shelters in the wilderness. A good book for those of us who love traipsing through the bush, which in turn leaves us with that small chance of getting lost or stranded. The book I got was published by Loompanics Unlimited, and copied from the original 1914 edition, but I imagine all editions by all publishers are the same.

If you love the woods you need this book!!!!

I have lived in a very rural area my whole life. I love the forest, and because of this book I've been able to enjoy it even more. "Uncle Dan" Beard has lots of great ideas and illustrations to show how poeple used to, and still do, build shelters in the forest. It's great to have a historical resource to all of these techniques and ideas that are from the past - which otherwise might be forgotten about. GREAT BOOK!!