1897  Wickiup, now a common name throughout the West, of any rude temporary shelter like a hut or hovel, is said to be from an Algonquian word rendered mikiouaps [error for wikiouaps], meaning a conical leather lodge, wigwam, or tepee.
1912  I have not always lived so. Time was when I had my own wickiup, when I lay by my own night-fire and played with the braids of a woman's hair.
1920  . . . . I'd gone kiting off to prairie-ranch and a wickiup with a leaky roof."
1923  "This really won't do," he chided himself as he strode back in the frigid moonlight to his primitive wickiup.
1961  Don has already told his boys . . . how to build a brush "wickiup" shelter, and even . . . how to make fire without a match.