The log cabin in America, from pioneer days to the present / C. A. Weslager.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weslager, C. A. (Clinton Alfred), 1909-1994.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Log cabins--United States.

Log cabins.

Architecture, Domestic--United States.

Architecture, Domestic.

United States.

Genre:

Authors' autographs.

Physical Description:

xxv, 382 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [1969]

Summary:

Although the log cabin is widely believed to be the one expression of indigenous American architecture, it is, in fact, of European origin, having been first introduced in the New World by Swedes and Finns who settled the lower Delaware Valley in the seventeenth century. Log buildings were unknown to the English colonists of Jamestown, Plymouth, and St. Marys, or the Dutch founders of New Amsterdam, who built the kinds of dwellings they had known in their homelands. Because it was perfectly adapted to the needs and resources of pioneers as they advanced the American frontier south and west through forests and across mountains, the log house became the means whereby a man could keep moving and yet maintain a home and family, and much of America's historycan be traced in the cabins left behind in the westward trek.-- book jacket

Contents:

Pioneers go west

Red men and log cabins

Log houses in Europe

Virginia cavaliers, Carolinians, and Georgians

Pilgrims, Puritans, and Dutchmen

Maryland planters

Swedes and Finns on the Delaware

Pennsylvania Germans and the Scotch-Irish

Log cabin campaign

From log cabin to White House.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy signed by the author.

Athenaeum copy: Gift of: William B. Bassett.

ISBN:

0813505968

OCLC:

12030