Product Description: The Jack of All Trades By D. C. Beard

Product Description: In "Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties", Daniel Beard, an early leader of the Boy Scouts of America, teaches readers how to build a large variety of practical shelters using either a hatchet or an axe. There are over 50 different shelters described, including lean-tos, teepees, hogans, bark houses, a sod house, stilt houses, tree houses, one room log cabins, and large log houses...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Product Description: Long before "danger" was a book for boys, there was The American Boy's Handy Book by Daniel Beard—a beloved classic by one of the original founders of the Boy Scouts of America. The American Boy's Handy Book was designed to provide hundreds of activities for restless young boys—adventures and games, indoors and out, in every season of the year...read more