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Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties

This is our section on shelters, shacks, and shanties. This is taken from a book written nearly 100 years ago. It covers impromptu survival structures all the way up to log cabins. All construction methods are primitive, using materials available 100 years ago (hand tools) no power tools required or desired. Learn to build a house the original way.

1. Foreword
2. Bedding
3. The Half-Cave Shelter
4. How to Make Fallen-Tree and Scout-Master Shelters
5. How to make Adirondack, Wick-Up, Bark Teepee, Pioneer, and Scout Shelters
6. How to Make Beaver-Mat Huts Without Tree Injury
7. Native American Shacks and Shelters
8. How to Make Birch Bark or Tar Paper Shacks
9. Native American Communal Houses
10. Bark and Tar Paper Uses
11. Make a Sawed-Lumber Shanty
12. How to Make a Sod House
13. How to Build Elevates Shacks, Shanties, and Shelters
14. Build a Bog Ken
15. Constructing a Camp Over Water
16. Build a Signal Tower, Game Lookout, or Rustic Observatory
17. How to Build a Treehouse
18. Caches
19. How to Use an Axe
20. How to Split Logs, Make Shakes, Splits, or Clapboards
21. Axemen Camps
22. Railroad Tie and Barrel Shacks
23. Build a Barabara
24. The Navajo Hogan, Hornaday Dugout, and Sod House
25. How to Build an American Boy's Hogan
26. How to Cut and Notch Logs
27. Notched Log Ladders
28. A Pole House. How to Use a Cross-Cut Saw and Froe
29. Log Rolling and other Building Stunts
30. Adirondack Open Log Camp and One-Room Cabin
31. Native American Log Tent
32. How to Build the Red Jacket, The New Brunswick, and the Christopher Gist
33. How to Make Cabin Doors & Latches
34. Make Secret Cabin Locks
35. How to make the Bow-Arrow Cabin Door, The Deming Twin Bolts, Hall, and Billy
36. The Aures Lock Latch
37. Build an American Log Cabin
38. How to Build a Hunter's or Fisherman's Cabin
39. How to Make a Wyoming Olebo, Shake Cabin, Canadian Mossback
40. How to Build a Kanuck Log Cabin
41. How to Make a Pole House and American Totem Log House
42. How to Build a Susitna Log Cabin
43. How to Build a Fireplace & Chimney for a Simple Log Cabin
44. Heathstones and Fireplaces
45. More Hearths and Fireplaces
46. The Building of the Log House
47. How to Lay a Tar Paper, Birch Bark, or Patent Roofing
48. How to Make a Concealed Log Cabin Inside a Modern House
49. How to Build Gateways