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Book SynopsisTrade Review"'Uncle Dan' Beard was a co-founder of the Boy Scouts of America and longtime editor of
Boy's Life magazine. He published this book in 1882, and its greatest benefit is to show us how much more effort and ingenuity was expected of boys back in the 19th century than is expected today. There are projects for every season, ranging from making a whirligig to making and sailing a boat. Hunting with blowguns, homemade crossbows and other improvised arms is covered, as is practical taxidermy for the trophies collected. To read this book is to realize what has been lost in 130 years." —
Shotgun News"The capacity of the small human male to prevail in the face of adversity is grossly underestimated in today's society. It seems to me the solution to most of our ills is simply to let him go outside to run around a bit more.
The American Boy's Handy Book will show you how to do it properly." —
William Dabbs, MD, Guns magazine"If Huckleberry Finn were to settle down, somewhere out there in the territory, and decide to become an author, he might very well come up with a book like this one…evoking the kind of boyhood that nearly every American man would like to have had himself, and hopes that his son (or daughter) might still enjoy." —
Washington Post Book World
