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Table Of Contents

 

Chapter 1 - Adapting

- Get Your Priorities Straight

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Chapter 2 - Sanitation

- Sewage Disposal for Farm Homes

 

Chapter 3 - Gardening

- Survival Gardening

- Saving Seed

- How and When to Plant Vegetable Seeds

- USDA Hardiness Zones

 

Chapter 4 - The White Man's Garden

- Starting The Garden

- A Few Common Garden Plants

 

Chapter 5 - A Few Common Herbs

 

Chapter 6 - The Native American Garden

- Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden

- Corn

- Green Corn and Its Uses

- The Ripe Corn Harvest

- Seed Corn

- Threshing Corn

- Squashes

- Cooking and Uses of Squash

- Seed Squash

- Beans

- Sunflowers

 

Chapter 7 - Storing for the Winter : The White Man's Method

- Save It For Winter

- The Essentials of Successful Storage

- Directions for Storing Vegetables and Fruits

- Fruits in Storage

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Chapter 8 - Storing for the Winter : The Native American Method

- The Cache Pit

 

Chapter 9 - Preserving Vegetables

- Drying and Dehydrating

- The Various Methods of Drying and Explanations of Terms Used

- The Process of Drying

- Instructions for Different Vegetables and Fruit

- Time Table for Blanching and Drying

- Methods of Curing Herbs

 

Chapter 10 - Preserving Meat

- Dressing and Caring for Meat

- Directions for Salting Pork and Curing Ham and Bacon

- Preservation of Meat

- Preservation of Meat by Smoking

- Recipes for Home Curing of Meats

- Curing Venison

 

Chapter 11 - Care of Wild Game

- Keeping and Dressing Game and Fish

- Butchering Deer

- Small Mammals

- Dressing Birds

- Cleaning Fish

 

Chapter 12 - Hunting

- Birds

- Going Hunting

- What Tracking Means and Some Hunting Methods

- Ishi's Method of Hunting

- The Squirrel

- Squirrel Shooting

- Rabbit Hunting

- Deer Hunting

- Moose Hunting

- Elk Hunting

- Hunting Bears

- Feral Hogs

- Wild Turkey

- Frog Hunting

- Bee Hunting

 

Chapter 13 - Tracking

- Native Living Skills

- Animals Don't Cover Their Tracks

- Track and Tracking

 

Chapter 14 - Trapping

- The Art of Trapping

- A Study of Animal Trapping Methods

- Steel Traps

- A Few More Sets

- Baits

- Building Deadfalls

- Snares

- The Box Traps

- General Information

- Fish Traps

- Turtle Trapping

- Turkey & Quail

- Handling Skins

 

Chapter 15 - Fishing

- A Few Fresh Water Fish

- A Few Salt Water Fish

- Catfish

- Carp

- Various Modes of Fishing

- The Successful Fisherman

- Bait, Live and Dead

- About Seining

- Knitting Fish Nets

- Net Making

 

Chapter 16 - The Bow And Arrow

- How to Make A Bow

- How to Make an Arrow

- Archery Equipment

 

Chapter 17 - Hides & Hooves

- Updated Version of Brain Tanning

- Tanning Hides

- Leather Work

- Rawhide

- Strip Cutter

- Quick Tips

 

Chapter 18 - Furniture

- Bed and Mattress

- Furniture Making

 

Chapter 19 - How To Make One-Piece Moccasins

 

Chapter 20 - Sharpening and Maintaining Knives

 

Chapter 21 - Snowshoes

- Snowshoes : How to Make Them

- Snowshoes : How to Use Them

 

Chapter 22 - How to Make a Hammock

 

Chapter 23 - Blankets

 

Chapter 24 - A Reed Basket

 

Chapter 25 - Knots and Splices

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