This has been a Holy Grail quest for me for literally years! This wonderful building toy is very hard to find in my area of the World and very expensive if you do. The Internet offerings have always been beyond my reasonable ability to justify. But then…

This somewhat beat up Walt Disney’s Frontierland Logs by HALSAM Products box came into the range of my sights, and I pulled the trigger on Old Betsy and purchased it:

Disney’s Frontierland came into existence in 1955 in Disneyland. Fess Parker played Davy Crockett on television in 1954–1955. Then he played Daniel Boone on television from 1964–1970. But he never played Kit Carson, another frontier legend, on television or anywhere else. You can see them all depicted on the side of the box below:

The Frontierland Logs by Halsam Products Co. sprang into existence and were sold at Disneyland from 1955–1962. The Halsam brand itself started in 1917 and ended in 1970. This Chicago toymaker was founded by Harold Elliot and Sam Goss, Jr. They created the company name by combining their first names HAL and SAM. It was a family business.

These were made of real wood and could be interlocked to create any number of frontier-styled homes and forts. The ultimate toy for any boy or girl obsessed with the old west and American history!

I purchased this incomplete set for under $30.00 CAN but haven’t been able to find individual pieces to complete the box. At a reasonable price anyway. It also didn’t have the instructions, so another $30.00 CAN was spent on eBay to acquire what you see below:

Eventually, I hope to complete the set and perhaps buy other kits. If you read the instructions, each set is listed, with some being smaller or bigger. This set is medium-sized.

For now, I will display it for the box art and the nostalgia boost it yields. But some day, there will be a log building standing proudly beside it, perhaps with a Davy Crockett action figure to complete the display!

Do you remember the famous Ballad of Davy Crockett from the Disney television series? If so, why not click on over and enjoy not one, but three, Davy Crockett Records that I have in my collection. You’ll be singing along in no time!