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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 Them

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

    Number of Pages: 264

    Non Fiction , Home & Garden

    Description

    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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