Back40Books

American Ingenuity Classics

Click Here For Normal Browsing | Product Index

American Farm Book  Item#: 9781585743544
This wonderful piece of Americana will intrigue, inform, and intoxicate small-scale farmers and armchair gardeners alike.
Our Price: $12.95
Barns & Outbuildings  Item#: 9781585741182
Gather family and friends together and build dog houses, barns, cattle stalls, a corncrib or whatever you may need around the place. Maybe make a bonfire from the wood scrqps and have a cookout.
Our Price: $12.95
Country Houses  Item#: 9781585742226
Here are dozens of designs selected by the author for their practicality, comfort, and economy --- each embracing a different style and purpose, including a small villa of brownstone, a seaside cottage, a country church, and a workingman's cottage.
Our Price: $12.95
Camp Life in the Woods  Item#: 9781585744824
first published in 1881, it is quite ambitious, teaching everything from tigers and bears to squirrels and mice, along with general advice on camping.
Our Price: $12.95
Farm Blacksmithing  Item#: 9781585740970
This complete, no-nonsense guide, originally published in 1901, dispenses invaluable instruction on all essential skills of the blacksmith's craft.
Our Price: $12.95
Farm Machinery  Item#: 9781558219519
Farm Machinery presents the principles of mechanics as well as step-by-step instructions on how to build and repair all types of farm machinery from the 1900-1930 time period.
Our Price: $12.95
Farm Motors  Item#: 9781585740079
This complete guide, originally pubilshed in 1908, presents the origins and mechanical principals of farm motors. Beginning with a brief and fascination introduction to "the animal as motor," Farm Motors by Davidson and Chase goes on to present an ...
Our Price: $12.95
Fences, Gates & Bridges, LP  Item#: 9781558218895
This book is an instruction guide to the best methods of building an incredible variety of these devices for all regions and weather conditions, designs you can fabricate on-farm from readily available materials, many from the farm itself.
Our Price: $12.95
Homemade Contrivances  Item#: 9781602390188
Simple inventions described for doing everything from managing young bulls to protecting drain outlets can be just as useful for today's farmer as they were for the homesteaders of over a century ago
Our Price: $14.95
Homestead Builder, 2nd Ed  Item#: 9781599211534
The classic guide to building cabins and houses from scratch. Packed with handy advice and useful tips that show the best ways to plan and construct dwellings in any location using wood, earth, and gravel.
Our Price: $12.95
Household Conveniences  Item#: 9781585743742
first published in 1884 long before such conveniences like refrigerators were available. While many of the items seem quaint and out of date many more are helpful and easy to use
Our Price: $12.95
Shelters, Shacks and Shanties  Item#: 9781558219526
Presents lively, step-by-step tutelage on building all types of temporary and long-term accommodations from both natural and man-made materials.
Our Price: $12.95




American Ingenuity Classics


Copyright ©2005-2008 Back 40 Group, Inc.
Powered By GlobalWebCart.com