| 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 | [39] |
| XI. | A Sod House for the Lawn | [47] |
| XII. | How to Build Elevated Shacks, Shanties, and Shelters | [52] |
| XIII. | The Bog Ken | [54] |
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| XIV. | Over-Water Camps | [62] |
| XV. | Signal-Tower, Game Lookout, and Rustic Observatory | [65] |
| XVI. | Tree-Top Houses | [72] |
| XVII. | Caches | [77] |
| XVIII. | How to Use an Axe | [83] |
| 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 | [87] |
| XX. | Axemen's Camps | [92] |
| XXI. | Railroad-Tie Shacks, Barrel Shacks, and Chimehuevis | [96] |
| XXII. | The Barabara | [100] |
| XXIII. | The Navajo Hogan, Hornaday Dugout, and Sod House | [104] |
| XXIV. | How to Build an American Boy's Hogan | [107] |
| XXV. | How to Cut and Notch Logs | [115] |
| XXVI. | Notched Log Ladders | [119] |
| XXVII. | A Pole House. How to Use a Cross-Cut Saw and a Froe | [122] |
| XXVIII. | Log-Rolling and Other Building Stunts | [126] |
| XXIX. | The Adirondack Open Log Camp and a One-Room Cabin | [129] |
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| XXX. | The Northland Tilt and Indian Log Tent | [132] |
| XXXI. | How to Build the Red Jacket, the New Brunswick, and the Christopher Gist | [135] |
| XXXII. | Cabin Doors and Door-Latches, Thumb-Latches and Foot Latches and How to Make Them | [139] |
| XXXIII. | Secret Locks | [145] |
| XXXIV. | How to Make the Bow-Arrow Cabin Door and Latch and the Deming Twin Bolts, Hall, and Billy | [151] |
| XXXV. | The Aures Lock Latch | [155] |
| XXXVI. | The American Log Cabin | [161] |
| XXXVII. | A Hunter's or Fisherman's Cabin | [169] |
| 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 | [171] |
| XXXIX. | Native Names for the Parts of a Kanuck Log Cabin, and How to Build One | [177] |
| XL. | How to Make a Pole House and How to Make a Unique but Thoroughly American Totem Log House | [183] |
| XLI. | How to Build a Susitna Log Cabin and How to Cut Trees for the End Plates | [191] |
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| XLII. | How to Make a Fireplace and Chimney for a Simple Log Cabin | [195] |
| XLIII. | Hearthstones and Fireplaces | [200] |
| XLIV. | More Hearths and Fireplaces | [203] |
| XLV. | Fireplaces and the Art of Tending the Fire | [206] |
| XLVI. | The Building of the Log House | [211] |
| XLVII. | How to Lay a Tar Paper, Birch Bark, or Patent Roofing | [218] |
| XLVIII. | How to Make a Concealed Log Cabin Inside of a Modern House | [230] |
| 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 | [237] |
