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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!

Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties: And How to Make

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      Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
      Publication Date: 24/02/2011
      ISBN13: 9781616081348, 978-1616081348
      ISBN10: 1616081341

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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!

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