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Sod house rekindles prairie past

Brewster? Anyone interested in Kansas’s history and the pioneer days just might enjoy a visit to the Minor Family Sod House Bed and Breakfast. Located about 20 miles north of Brewster, the four-room s... read more

Archway expansion starts with sod house

By the time it's finished next spring, Ronnie O'Brien, director of education and operations at the archway, hopes the house can become a window to the past and an educational ... the north by adding t... read more

Discover Oklahoma: State's agricultural story told at several sites

Murrell in Park Hill; the sod house built in 1894 by Marshal McCully near Aline; the Pawnee Bill Ranch built in Pawnee by Gordon W. “Pawnee Bill” Lillie, a Wild West showman; and the Museum of the Wes... read more

Frontier relics

LEXINGTON - While most of the long-time residents of Lexington remember Plum Creek Days and stories of the Plum Creek Massacre, some memories of the past ... sod house was analogous to the log cabin d... read more

Finding the beauties of summer in Minnesota's southwest

Sod House ... through prairie and past a waterfall. Inside the visitor center, Indians demonstrate pipe making (nps.gov/pipe; 1-507-825-5464). Triple “L” Farm: Joan Larson’s hog farm turned bed-and-br... read more

Summer service in historic wooden country church

The historic church which began in a sod house now stands as an icon on the western Minnesota prairie. Additional Articles Recommended ... and color photography at Central Lakes College for the past 1... read more

The Archivist: Small white house has big historical significance

past Deer Creek Schools ... On the fence is this sign: Cartmill Farm House — Circa 1895 This house is a rare surviving example of the house built by settlers on the prairie as they moved out of sod ho... read more

Stirring up dust and memories on the long road back home

who started out life in sod houses and battled the dust storms of the Great Depression to produce 304 descendants, more than half of whom gathered to share the past and the present. This is no vacatio... read more

Making history go 'Wow'

Breaking sod on the prairie ... past and present, low and high technology, "then" and "now" as the title puts it. The largest and most complicated exhibit the History Center has ever produced, "Wow" i... read more

Editorial: Nebraska's early decades of statehood were a bustling era

Massive ice sheets and persistent winds had a huge sculpting effect, for example, during the past 2.5 million years ... Homesteaders showed determination with their sod houses. (“It was the first time ... read more

Brewster-area bed and breakfast dates to 1908

Now, Lesa and her husband, Fred, have decided to share her heritage with others who want to experience life on the prairie in a sod house ... Juenemanns have made the house more modern, the accessorie... read more

Reunion brings sisters, family closer

They homesteaded on land near Gandy and built a sod house ... the Depression, the prairie grass was destroyed by cattle and the farmers plowing the land. “We didn’t have any money,” Emma said. The har... read more