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The most notable type of frontier house east of the Mississippi River was the log cabin. Until the settlers crossed the Mississippi, they were surrounded by dense forests. In the 18th century, American pioneers often used the wood of the southern white cedar or pine to build their log cabins.

This Is a great article giving tips on how to build a inexpensive log home. The people who built the one in the article is a cute cozy little cabin.

Talks about the cabin in Grand Isle Vermont, built circa 1783 by Jedediah Hyde, Jr , a veteran of the Revolutionary War. The family lived there for 150 years. It was moved in 1946 to the location its in and was restored in 1956 and 1985. The Grand Isle Historical Society owns the collection in the building.

Building a Cabinwas done to provide the emmigrant farmer with temporary shelter from the weather and protection from wild animals while the barn was built. As John Rempel points out in Building with Wood (1967), there was a difference between a log house and a log cabin.

this website is a all together great place to look and find lots of information on modern log cabins. this particular article tells about notching the logs

this site was very helpful and explained the different types of notches and which ones work best and what is the purpose of them. it helped me decide which notch io wanted to use for my log cabin.

This site talks about old fashioned Chinking (insulation) for cabins. It also gives recipes to make different kinds of chinking.

this site was very helpful a lot of information on different ways to connect logs on top of each other and showed a few types of notches. it explained which ones were the best to use.

Picking oakum was a common occupation in Victorian times in British prisons and workhouses. In 1862, girls under 16 at Tothill Fields Bridewell had to pick 1 pound a day, and boys under 16 had to pick 1.5 pounds. Over the age of 16, girls and boys had to pick 1.5 pounds and 2 pounds per day respectively.

C. A. Nothnagle Log House (also known as Braman-Nothnagle Log House) is a historic house on Swedesboro-Paulsboro Road in Gibbstown, New Jersey, near Swedesboro, Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States. It is one of the oldest surviving log houses in the United States.

This site talks about the difference in cedar log homes and pine log homes.