The Log Cabin 



OF course, in those very early times there were 

 no sawmills nor brickyards in our country. The 

 first white men had little to work with but their 

 own strong arms and stout hearts. But these, 

 with a good broadax, were enough ; and soon the 

 first log houses sprang up in the woods. The 

 first American home was a log cabin. The first 

 habitations of the pioneers in the West, as in the 

 East, were log cabins. These long ago gave place 

 to more commodious and pretentious dwellings; 

 but in the woods and mountains of the South 

 and of the far West, log cabins may still be seen. 



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