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Shelters,
Shacks, and Shanties
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Hunter's cabin showing how projecting logs may beutilized.[iii]
Shelters,
Shacks, and Shanties
By
D. C. BEARD
With Illustrations by the Author
NEW YORK
Charles Scribner's Sons
1916
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Copyright, 1914, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
Published September, 1914
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DEDICATED TO
DANIEL BARTLETT BEARD
BECAUSE OF HIS
LOVE OF THE BIG OUTDOORS
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FOREWORD
As this book is written for boys of all ages, it has been divided undertwo 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 willneed the aid of an axe.
The smallest boys can build some of the simple shelters and the older boyscan build the more difficult ones. The reader may, if he likes, begin withthe first of the book, build his way through it, and graduate by buildingthe log houses; in doing this he will be closely following the history ofthe human race, because ever since our arboreal ancestors with prehensiletoes scampered among the branches of the pre-glacial forests and builtnestlike shelters in the trees, men have made themselves shacks for atemporary refuge. But as one of the members of the Camp-Fire Club ofAmerica, as one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America, and as thefounder of the Boy Pioneers of America, it would not be proper for theauthor to admit for one moment that there can be such a thing as a campwithout a camp-fire, and for that reason the tree folks and the "missinglink" whose remains were[viii] found in Java, and to whom the scientists gavethe awe-inspiring name of Pithecanthropus erectus, cannot be counted ascampers, because they did not know how to build a camp-fire; neither canwe admit the ancient maker of stone implements, called eoli