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Clyde P. Fickes

b. 1884

Best known for practical writing on log construction, this early 20th-century U.S. government author helped turn hands-on building knowledge into clear public guidance. He also appears in Montana historical records connected to forestry and pack-horse work.

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Building with Logs

Building with Logs

by Clyde P. Fickes, W. Ellis (William Ellis) Groben

About the author

Published as Clyde P. Fickes, he is credited as the author of Building with Logs (1957), a U.S. government publication on log buildings and furniture making. The book was issued by the United States Government Printing Office, and library records list him as born in 1884.

Historical material from the University of Montana and the Montana History Portal shows Fickes was also associated with Montana forestry work. In a 1977 oral history, he discussed founding the Nine Mile Remount Depot Station, along with firefighting, stock handling, and the development of lookout housing.

Little widely available biographical detail has been confirmed beyond these records, but the surviving sources suggest a writer and fieldman whose expertise came from direct experience rather than theory. His work remains of interest to readers drawn to traditional building methods and the practical history of the American West.