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 axeHow to split logsHow to flatten a logHow to build a Navajo HoganHow to cut and notch logsHow to build a notched ladderHow to make cabin doors and door-latches.The American log cabinA Fisherman's cabinAnd much, much more.
Go back to basics with this classic of American ingenuity!
- ISBN10 144654804X
- ISBN13 9781446548042
- Publish Date 24 March 2011 (first published 26 October 2007)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Iyer Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 268
- Language English