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