Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties: And How to Make Them by Beard, D. C.

Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties: And How to Make Them (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781616081348)

Vendor: Daniel Carter Beard
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
$9.95
$9.95
$9.95
Subtotal: $9.95
Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties: And How to Make Them by Beard, D. C.

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

$9.95
Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties: And How to Make Them by Beard, D. C.

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

$9.95
Format: Paperback
Description
Description
x
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 axe
  • How to split logs
  • How to flatten a log
  • How to build a Navajo Hogan
  • How to cut and notch logs
  • How to build a notched ladder
  • How to make cabin doors and door-latches.
  • The American log cabin
  • A Fisherman's cabin
  • And much, much more.

Go back to basics with this classic of American ingenuity

Author: Daniel Carter Beard
ISBN-10: 1616081341
ISBN-13: 9781616081348
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Language: English
Published: 02/08/2011
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.30w x 0.90d
By Daniel Carter Beard
By Daniel Carter Beard
x
Daniel Carter Beard (1850-1941) was an author, illustrator, and founder of two societies for boys--the Sons of Daniel Boone in 1905 and the Boy Scouts of America in 1910. He authored and illustrated more than twenty books, including The American Boys Handy Book.

Recently Viewed Products