Table Of Contents

 

Chapter 1 - Catastrophic Event

 - What Is Electromagnetic Pulse

 - Earthquake

 - Civil Disobedience

 

Chapter 2 - Why Prepare To Survive

- The Fallacy of Home Storage and Surviving in Place

- What Are Our Options

- Can We Survive In Isolation?

 

Chapter 3 - Being Prepared

- Preparing

 

Chapter 4 - Your Group

- Why Form A Group?

- Organizing The Group

- Living Style

- Positions

- Skills

 

Chapter 5 - Choosing An Evacuation Point

- Types Of Climate

- Group Purchase Of Land

 

Chapter 6 - The Decision To Evacuate

- Evacuation Triggers

- Always Vigilant

- Evacuation Plans

- Traveling

 

Chapter 7 - Supplies

- Cache

- Building Your Cache

- Supplies

- Food

- The Four Essential Foods

- Supply List

- Emergency Supplies

- Individual Cache

- Group Cache

 

Chapter 8 - Salt

 

Chapter 9 - Water

- Water Borne Pathogen

- Water Purification

- Sources of Water

- Sources of Farm Water Supply

 

Chapter 10 - Temporary Camp

- Criteria for Temporary Camp

- Camp Sanitation

- Temporary Shelter

- Tents for the Fixed Camp

- Adirondack Shelter

- Dug Out

 

Chapter 11 - Camp Living

- Camp Cooking Fires

- Dutch Ovens

- Insects in Camp

 

Chapter 12 - Hunting

- Firearms

- Ammunition Reloading

- Scope

- Care of the Rifle

- Bow and Arrow

- Game

- The Art of Hunting

- Hunters Maxims

 

Chapter 13 - Fishing

- Fishing with Pole, Hook and Line

- Throwlines, Set Pole, Trotlines/Setline

- Other Fishing Methods

- Fishing for the Pot

 

Chapter 14 - Trapping

- Steel Traps

 

Chapter 15 - Garden

- The Whiteman's Method

- Gardening Implements

- The Home Garden

- The Native American Method

- The Three Sisters

- Companion Planting

- Wampanoag Three Sisters Garden

- Zuni Waffle Garden

 

Chapter 16 - Food Choices

- Corn

- Honey

- Salt

-  Wheat

- Wild Rice

- Vinegar

- Making Maple Syrup

- How to Render Fat

- Jerky

- Cooking with Amaranth

 

Chapter 17 - Foodborne Disease

 

Chapter 18 - Preserving Foods

- Drying Foods Out-of-Doors

- Curing

- A Practical Small Smokehouse for Fish

 

Chapter 19 - Canning

- Pressure Cooking Method

- Canning Process

 

Chapter 20 - Wood Crafting

- Practicing the Craft

- Axemanship Qualities and Utilization of Wood

 

Chapter 21 - Permanent Shelter

- Home

- Scavenging

- Location and Construction

- Building a Log Cabin

- Build a Handsome, Sturdy and Affordable Log Cabin

- Shelters and Shanties

- Foundation

- Adobe

- The Tippecanoe Door Latch

- Chimney Building

- Firebox

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Chapter 22 - Health Matters

- Medical

- Personal Hygiene

- Shock

- Wound Treatment

- Cleaning the Wound

- Wound Covering

- Sutures

- Bandages

- Application of Bandages

- Infections

- Skin Infections

- Bleeding

- The Blood

- Arterial Hemorrhage

- Venous Hemorrhage

- Internal Hemorrhage

- Dislocations

- Fractures

- Removing Fishhooks

- Intestinal Parasites

- Diarrhea

- Burns

- Dehydration

- Heat Exhaustion or Heatstroke

- Hypothermia

- Frostbite

- Trench Foot and Immersion Foot

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Chapter 23 - Medication

- Three Natural Medicines

- Activated Charcoal & Charcoal

- Plants as Medicine

- Gathering Your Own Herbs

- Herbal Preparations

- Herbal Treatment of Wounds

- The Hughes Apothecary

- A Few Home Remedies

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Chapter 24 - Diseases you Need to be Aware of

- Tularemia

- Trichinellosis

- Bubonic Plague

- Blood Poisoning

- Rabies

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Chapter 25 - Pests

- Snakes

- Pit Viper Bites

- Pest of the Woods

- Insect Bites and Stings

- Spider Bites

- Scorpion Stings

- Centipede Bites

- Tick Bites

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Chapter 26 - Knowing Where You Are

- Map and Compass Skills

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Chapter 27 - Tools

- Construction Tools

- Tools for Drilling Holes in Wood

- Tools for Digging Holes

- Brief History of the Axe

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Chapter 28 - Cutting Timber

- Felling Trees

- Crosscut Saw Manual

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Chapter 29 - A Few Kitchen Ideas

- How to Make a Fireless Cooker

- Aladdin Oven

- Kerosene and Kerosene Lamps

- Iceless Refrigerator

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Chapter 30 - A Few Parting Thoughts