A practical guide to building simple outdoor shelters, shacks, and camps, written for boys and anyone drawn to life in the open. It divides camps into those needing only a hatchet and those requiring an axe, with notes on campcraft and campfires. It is worth listening to for clear woodcraft and a picture of early scouting and outdoor life.
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Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties Hunter's cabin showing how projecting logs may be utilized. Hunter's cabin showing how projecting logs may be utilized. Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties By D. C. BEARD With Illustrations by the Author NEW YORK Charles Scribner's Sons 1916
Copyright, 1914, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
Published September, 1914
DEDICATED TO
DANIEL BARTLETT BEARD
BECAUSE OF HIS
LOVE OF THE BIG OUTDOORS
FOREWORD
As this book is written for boys of all ages, it has been divided under two general heads, "The Tomahawk Camps" and
"The Axe Camps," that is, camps which may be built with no tool but a hatchet, and camps that will need the aid of an axe.
The smallest boys can build some of the simple shelters and the older boys can build the more difficult ones. The reader may, if he likes, begin with the first of the book, build his way through it, and graduate by building the log houses; in doing this he will be closely following the history of the human race, because ever since our arboreal ancestors with prehensile toes scampered among the branches of the pre-glacial forests and built nestlike shelters in the trees, men have made themselves shacks for a temporary refuge. But as one of the members of the CampFire Club of America, as one of the founders of the Boy
Scouts of America, and as the founder of the Boy Pioneers of America, it would not be proper for the author to admit for one moment that there can be such a thing as a camp without a camp-fire, and for that reason the tree folks and the "missing link" whose remains were found in Java, and to whom the scientists gave the awe-inspiring name of
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