I Where to Find Mountain Goose. How to Pick and Use Its Feathers 1 -- II 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 Bog Ken 54 -- XIV Over-Water Camps 62 -- XV Signal-Tower, Game Lookout, and Rustic Observatory 65 -- XVI Tree-Top Houses 72 -- XVII Cahes 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 Barabara 100 -- XXIII 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 Adirondack Open Log Camp and a One-Room Cabin 129 -- XXX 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 Aures Lock Latch 155 -- XXXVI 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 -- 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 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.