Books with author D C Beard

This kindle edition comprises of : -- Table of Contents with Quick Navigation -- -- Unique illustrations --“Shelters, Shacks and Shanties” harkens back to the can-do spirit of the American frontier and belongs in the knapsack of every modern scout, young and old alike. Originally published in 1914, “Shelters, Shacks and Shanties” presents step-by-step tutelage on all aspects of outdoor accommodation. D. C. Beard explains how to construct a variety of worry-free shelters appropriate to a natural environment that is by turns both friendly and foreboding. Fully recognizing that the Outdoorsman builds a shelter with the intention of inhabiting it, Beard explains how to build hearths and chimneys, notched log ladders, and even how to rig secret locks. Illustrated throughout with instructional line drawings,.

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CONTENTS CHAPTER Foreword I. Where to Find Mountain Goose. How to Pick and Use Its Feathers II. The Half-Cave Shelter III. How to Make the Fallen-Tree Shelter and the Scout-Master IV. How to Make the Adirondack, the Wick-Up, the Bark Teepee, the Pioneer, and the Scout V. How to Make Beaver-Mat Huts, or Fagot Shacks, without Injury to the Trees VI. Indian Shacks and Shelters VII. Birch Bark or Tar Paper Shack VIII. Indian Communal Houses IX. Bark and Tar Paper X. A Sawed-Lumber Shanty XI. A Sod House for the Lawn XII. How to Build Elevated Shacks, Shanties, and Shelters XIII. The Bog Ken XIV. Over-Water Camps XV. Signal-Tower, Game Lookout, and Rustic Observatory XVI. Tree-Top Houses XVII. Caches XVIII. How to Use an Axe XIX. How to Split Logs, Make Shakes, Splits, or Clapboards. How to Chop a Log in Half. How to Flatten a Log. Also Some Don'ts XX. Axemen's Camps XXI. Railroad-Tie Shacks, Barrel Shacks, and Chimehuevis XXII. The Barabara XXIII. The Navajo Hogan, Hornaday Dugout, and Sod House XXIV. How to Build an American Boy's Hogan XXV. How to Cut and Notch Logs XXVI. Notched Log Ladders XXVII. A Pole House. How to Use a Cross-Cut Saw and a Froe XXVIII. Log-Rolling and Other Building Stunts XXIX. The Adirondack Open Log Camp and a One-Room Cabin XXX. The Northland Tilt and Indian Log Tent XXXI. How to Build the Red Jacket, the New Brunswick, and the Christopher Gist XXXII. Cabin Doors and Door-Latches, Thumb-Latches and Foot Latches and How to Make Them XXXIII. Secret Locks XXXIV. How to Make the Bow-Arrow Cabin Door and Latch and the Deming Twin Bolts, Hall, and Billy XXXV. The Aures Lock Latch XXXVI. The American Log Cabin XXXVII. A Hunter's or Fisherman's Cabin XXXVIII. How to Make a Wyoming Olebo, a Hoko River Olebo, a Shake Cabin, a Canadian Mossback, and a Two-Pen or Southern Saddle-Bag House XXXIX. Native Names for the Parts of a Kanuck Log Cabin, and How to Build One XL. How to Make a Pole House and How to Make a Unique but Thoroughly American Totem Log House XLI. How to Build a Susitna Log Cabin and How to Cut Trees for the End Plates XLII. How to Make a Fireplace and Chimney for a Simple Log Cabin XLIII. Hearthstones and Fireplaces XLIV. More Hearths and Fireplaces XLV. Fireplaces and the Art of Tending the Fire XLVI. The Building of the Log House XLVII. How to Lay a Tar Paper, Birch Bark, or Patent Roofing XLVIII. How to Make a Concealed Log Cabin Inside of a Modern House XLIX. How to Build Appropriate Gateways for Grounds Enclosing Log Houses, Game Preserves, Ranches, Big Country Estates, and Last but not Least Boy Scouts' Camp Grounds

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 Camp-Fire 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 Pithecanthropus erectus, cannot be counted as campers, because they did not know how to build a camp-fire; neither can we admit the ancient maker of stone implements, called eoliths, to be one of us, because he, too, knew not the joys of a camp-fire. But there was another fellow, called the Neanderthal man, who lived in the ice age in Europe and he had to be a camp-fire man or freeze! As far as we know, he was the first man to build a camp-fire. The cold weather made him hustle, and hustling developed him. True, he did cook and eat his neighbors once in a while, and even split their bones for the marrow; but we will forget that part and just remember him as the first camper in Europe.

Daniel Carter "Uncle Dan" Beard (June 21, 1850 – June 11, 1941) was an American illustrator, author, youth leader, and social reformer who founded the Sons of Daniel Boone in 1905, which Beard later merged with the Boy Scouts of America Beard was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, into a family of artists.As a youth, he explored the woods and made sketches of nature. His father was the artist James Henry Beard and his mother was Mary Caroline (Carter) Beard. His uncle was the artist William Holbrook Beard. He lived at 322 East Third Street in Covington, Kentucky near the Licking River, where he learned the stories of Kentucky pioneer life. He started an early career as an engineer and surveyor. He attended art school in New York City. He wrote a series of articles for St. Nicholas Magazine that later formed the basis for The American Boy's Handy Book. He was a member of the Student Art League, where he met and befriended Ernest Thompson Seton in 1883. He illustrated a number of books for Mark Twain, and for other authors such as Ernest Crosby.