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:
Go back to basics with this classic of American ingenuity
Author: Daniel Carter Beard
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 02/08/2011
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.30w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781616081348
ISBN10: 1616081341
BISAC Categories:
- House & Home | Design & Construction
- House & Home | Do-It-Yourself | Carpentry
- House & Home | Sustainable Living
- 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
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 02/08/2011
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.30w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781616081348
ISBN10: 1616081341
BISAC Categories:
- House & Home | Design & Construction
- House & Home | Do-It-Yourself | Carpentry
- House & Home | Sustainable Living
About the Author
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.