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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 ... read more

Portraits of the Past: Morgan County had Colorado's only 2-story sod house

This volunteer group first came together to create, "Morgan County: A Land of Immigrants ... an abundance of earth and clay and the prairie vegetation itself, and their use resulted in the "Soddies" ... 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 ... 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 ... read more

A lifetime of reading and writing is reflected in house full of books, magazines, newspapers

The forced move has made me face up to this affliction which has grown in volume over the past decades of my life ... Behind them is the sod house where my mother was born. Not only do I have these ... 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 ... read more

Unlocking Prairie Secrets From A Sod House

These findings may only apply to this one specific area of the prairie and to this one specific sod house. But they’re hoping scientists and researchers can copy their techniques with other sod houses ... 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

The mystery of 1800s Kansas stone cellars: Were they also homes?

“People outside in the arcade walk past the gallery ... were built to be lived in until a larger above-ground house could be constructed? Historical photographs abound of Kansas settlers next to sod ... 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" ... read more

Bringing the prairie home: Rebekah Rolland on 'Seed & Silo'

Sketched during her artist residency at the Homestead National Monument outside Lincoln, Nebraska, Seed & Silo is a study of the sod-house chapter in U.S. history ... Silo among the rare sights of ... 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 ... read more