uts.

This book is not intended as an encyclopedia or history of primitive
architecture; the bureaus at Washington, and the Museum of Natural
History, are better equipped for that purpose than the author.

The boys will undoubtedly acquire a dexterity and skill in building the
shacks and shanties here described, which will be of lasting benefit to
them whether they acquire the skill by building camps "just for the fun of
the thing" or in building them for the more practical purpose of
furnishing shelter for overnight pleasure hikes, for the wilderness
trail, or for permanent camps while living in the open.

It has been the writer's experience that the readers depend more upon his
diagrams than they do upon the written matter in his books, and so in this
book he has again attempted to make the diagrams self-explanatory. The
book was written in answer to requests by many people interested in the
Boy Scout movement and others interested in the general activities of
boys, and also in answer to the personal demands of hundreds of boys and
many men.

The drawings are all original and many of them invented by the author
himself and published here for the first time, for the purpose of
supplying all the boy readers, the Boy Scouts, and other older "boys,"
calling themselves Scoutmasters and sportsmen, with practical hints,
drawings, and descriptions showing how to build suitable shelters for
temporary or permanent camps.

DANIEL CARTER BEARD.
FLUSHING, LONG ISLAND,
APRIL 1, 1914.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

FOREWORD v

I. WHERE TO FIND MOUNTAIN GOOSE. HOW TO
PICK AND USE ITS FEATHERS 1

II. THE HALF-CAVE SHELTER 7

III. HOW TO MAKE THE FALLEN-TREE SHELTER
AND THE SCOUT-MASTER 11

IV. HOW TO MAKE THE ADIRONDACK, THE WICK-UP,
THE BARK TEEPEE, THE PIONEER, AND
THE SCOUT 15

V. HOW TO MAKE BEAVER-MAT HUTS, OR FAGOT
SHACKS, WITHOUT INJURY TO THE TREES 18

VI. INDIAN SHACKS AND SHELTERS 22

VII. BIRCH BARK OR TAR PAPER SHACK 27

VIII. INDIAN COMMUNAL HOUSES 31

IX. BARK AND TAR PAPER 36

X. A SAWED-LUMBER SHANTY