Sod Houses on the Great Plains
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 40
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTells how settlers on the treeless plains built houses from the prairie sod itself.
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The Sod-House Frontier, 1854-1890
Author: Everett Dick
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 550
ISBN-13: 9780803216877
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMidwest Maize
Author: Cynthia Clampitt
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2015-02-28
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0252096878
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFood historian Cynthia Clampitt pens the epic story of what happened when Mesoamerican farmers bred a nondescript grass into a staff of life so prolific, so protean, that it represents nothing less than one of humankind's greatest achievements. Blending history with expert reportage, she traces the disparate threads that have woven corn into the fabric of our diet, politics, economy, science, and cuisine. At the same time she explores its future as a source of energy and the foundation of seemingly limitless green technologies. The result is a bourbon-to-biofuels portrait of the astonishing plant that sustains the world.
Sod Walls
Author: Roger L. Welsch
Publisher: J. & L. Lee Company
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 230
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Sod House
Author: Elizabeth Coatsworth
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 64
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Laura Ingalls Wilder Companion
Author: Annette Whipple
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2020-08-04
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 1641601698
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEager young readers can now discover and experience Laura Ingalls Wilder's books like never before. Author Annette Whipple encourages children to engage in pioneer activities while thinking deeper about the Ingalls and Wilder families as portrayed in the nine Little House books. The Laura Ingalls Wilder Companion provides brief introductions to each Little House book, chapter-by-chapter story guides, and "Fact or Fiction" sidebars, plus 75 activities, crafts, and recipes that encourage kids to "Live Like Laura" using easy-to-find supplies. Thoughtful questions help the reader develop appreciation and understanding of Wilder's stories. Every aspiring adventurer will enjoy this walk alongside Laura from the big woods to the golden years.
Giants in the Earth
Author: Ole Edvart Rølvaag
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Published: 1927
Total Pages: 506
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA narrative of pioneer hardship and heroism on the boundless Dakota prairie, as a Norwegian-American immigrant family passed through Ellis Island and worked to eke out a living in America's midwest.
Home on the Plains
Author: Kathy Moore
Publisher: C&T Publishing
Published: 2011-03
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781935362807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInspired by sod house homemakers' words and quilts, Kathy Moore and Stephanie Whitson tell about those hard-working women striving to create a home on the plains... in houses made of dirt. While struggling to survive, they still found time for beauty, making lovely, intricate quilts to brighten their homes. Eight patterns are included.
Sod-house Days
Author: Howard Ruede
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780700602346
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of letters by nineteenth-century homesteader Howard Ruede in which he chronicles his first year in Kansas while writing back to his family in Pennsylvania, covering topics such as poverty, unsanitary conditions, and starvation.
The Sod House
Author: Cass Grove Barns
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1970-01-01
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780803257009
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"No one so well knows the life of pioneer settlements," writes Addison E. Sheldon in the foreword to this book, "as the country doctor, and the country editor, and it might be added, the country postmaster who (in the popular pioneer belief) knew every letter written or received by every person in the community and read all the postcards." No wonder, then, that Dr. Sheldon considered Cass G. Barns uniquely well equipped as a local historian, for Barns served his community in all three capacities. A country doctor who combined farming with medicine, he had a part in the founding and management of the first industries of Boone County, Nebraska, became the editor of a newspaper, county commissioner, and postmaster. The Sod House is a personal narrative?the intimate story of the settlement and frontier years (1867-1897) of the Nebraska prairie country lying between the Elkhorn and Loup rivers. In the worlds of Dr. Sheldon, himself a pioneer Nebraskan, "It preserves for all future generations a faithful picture of the period and the region which it describes."
