Building with Logs: Western Log Construction in Context
Jennifer Eastman Attebery, George W. WingateBooks.org participates in affiliate programs including Bookshop.org and the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. We may earn a commission from qualifying purchases made through links on this page, at no additional cost to you.
Overview
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for the University of Idaho PressAttebery addresses aspects of the New Western History by exploring how the log cabin myth is part of the larger myth of the Frontier West. She argues that scholars interested in understanding log construction must look beyond the myth for evidence of the log cabin's particular meanings within the communities that used log buildings in Idaho.
Synopsis
In Building with Logs: Western Log Construction in Context, Jennifer Eastman Attebery addresses aspects of the New Western History by exploring how the log cabin myth is part of the larger myth of the Frontier West. She argues that scholars interested in understanding log construction must look beyond the myth for evidence of the log cabin's particular meanings within the communities that used log buildings in Idaho. We can read those meanings by looking for their implicit expression in such patterns as the choice and quality of construction techniques, the original use of buildings and the reuse of log structures over time.
Booknews
Explores the myth of the log cabin in the context of the larger myth of the Frontier West. Attebery (English, Idaho State U.) argues that scholars interested in understanding log construction must see beyond the myth to look for evidence of the log cabin's particular meanings within the communities that used log cabins in Idaho. She uses survey data from Mormon villages and farms in southeast Idaho and mining communities in north Idaho to back up her points. Includes 70 b&w photographs. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.