With a lack of trees or stone on the prairie, homesteaders looked to the land for building materials. Sod, made from thickly rooted prairie grass cut in 2- by 1-foot chunks, was piled like bricks to ...

EDINBURG, N.D. -- Stepping over the threshold of the Edinburg sod house is a trip back in time. Members of the community have furnished the sod house with late 19th and early 20th century replicas and ...

ALINE, Okla. — “The truest form of the remaining Plains history today is the sod house,” says Renee Trindle, curator of Sod House Museum, located along Oklahoma 8 about halfway between Cleo Springs ...

EDINBURG (AP) - Stepping over the threshold of the Edinburg sod house is a trip back in time. Members of the community have furnished the sod house with late 19th Century and early 20th Century ...

This memoir comes from an email correspondence I had with Jim Oberfoell of Sentinel Butte, who responded to a column I wrote reflecting on the backbreaking work required to survive as an immigrant ...

It wasn’t a windswept prairie. No pioneers were working to build a home in which they’d spend cold winters and hot summers. Instead, the grass was green and short and a group of volunteers were ...

Today, we think of them as the settler's last ditch alternative to wood and brick structures, but 140 or 150 years ago that was not necessarily the case. Of, course wood was scarce and brick factories ...