The log cabin : an American icon / Alison K. Hoagland.

"For roughly a century, the log cabin occupied a central and indispensable role in the rapidly growing United States. Although it largely disappeared as a living space, it lived on as a symbol of the settling of the nation ... Alison Hoagland looks at this once-common dwelling as a practical sh...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Hoagland, Alison K., 1951- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2018.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. "The True Rustic Order": Log Cabins in Time and Place
  • 2. Presidential Timber: The Log Cabin as a Symbol of Political Worthiness
  • 3. Hovels and Cottages: The Log Cabin as a Symbol of Poverty
  • 4. Romancing the Wilderness: The Log Cabin as a Symbol of the Pioneer
  • 5. Twentieth-Century Leisure: When a Log Cabin is Not a Log Cabin
  • 6. "All the Pleasures of Primitive Living": The Log Cabin on Vacation
  • 7. Parks and Forests: The Log Cabin as a Public Amenity.