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In 1904 he produced Sod Houses or the Development of the Great American Plains: A Pictorial History of the Men and Means that have Conquered this Wonderful Country. ... Collage from page 3 of Sod Houses...
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Sod house - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The sod house or "Soddy" was a corollary to the log cabin during frontier settlement of the United States and Canada. The prairie lacked standard building materials such as wood or stone; however, s...
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These sites are about houses made from sod that many pioneers built and lived in during the 1800s. See photographs of past and reconstructed sod homes in Nebraska, Kansas, and the Dakotas. Read letters from people in which they talk about life in sod houses and watch a video tour of a home. ... Pioneer Camera: Sod Houses;
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Because of the thickness of the walls and in insulating ability of the material, sod houses did an excellent job of keeping the heat of a stove in the house during winter. They also helped keep the heat out during the summer.
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www.nebraskastudies.org/0500/stories/0501_0109.html
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From the 1870s on, both good and bad sod houses were constructed. The quality of the structure depended on the skill of the people constructing it and the time, money and effort put into it. One family put a tremendous amount of effort into their two-story soddy north of Broken Bow.
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They, too, built primitive sod houses. They gathered the buffalo bones that whitened the prairies and sold them, at about $10.00 per ton, to buy food, implements and furnishings. A sod house required about an acre of that material.
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Sod houses are one of the most ancient forms of building, employed by the Vikings and even earlier civilizations, right though twentieth century America and in any number of nations and cultures. ... A number of sod houses still stand today, and continue to provide shelter for families.
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www.jameslnelson.com/The%20Sod%20House.htm
www.jameslnelson.com/The%20Sod%20House.htm
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While many families who lived in sod houses at the turn of the century experienced constant poverty or subsistence living, others lived in relative elegance.
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www.autrynationalcenter.org/explore/exhibits/sod/daily....
www.autrynationalcenter.org/explore/exhibits/sod/daily.html
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The American Pioneer Sod House was common from the earliest days of settlement to the early years of this country. Sod Houses are small houses with walls built of stacked layers of uniformly cut turf.
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www.rrcnet.org/~historic/sodhist.htm
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