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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

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

Connect: An oasis in the Sandhills

Fellow Nebraskans know the county by the “4” on its residents’ license plates (a reminder of its pre-Depression population rank) and the classic sod-house photographs taken ... Other road trip ... read more

Readers remember the Apollo 11 moon landing

(Over the past several weeks, we’ve asked readers to share their ... So a man who was born in a previous century in a sod house on the prairie, and moved to the city in a covered wagon when the family ... 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

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

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 ... 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

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

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

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