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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

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" o... 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 ... sights of primeval prairie ecology. 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

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

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

Long-ago love affair led to prairie homestead

More than 110 years later, the prairie homestead east of Scenic established ... Sitting in his kitchen 100 feet from the sod house in which he was born, he paused to watch a herd of bison run past his ... read more

50 years after Gettysburg, one-armed vets became friends

President Woodrow Wilson addressed the vets July 4, 1913: "We have found one another again as brothers and comrades in arms, enemies no longer, generous friends rather, our battles long past ... They ... read more

Bowman museum features ‘all the different pieces that make up southwestern North Dakota’

You’ll learn when the dinosaurs dominated North Dakota’s prehistoric past, when the Native Americans hunted buffalo on the prairie, and when immigrants ... of rodeo items and we have a little replica ... 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

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

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