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 ...

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 ...

With few trees available, settlers had to build homes, schools and churches using packed earth. Custer County, Nebraska, was ...

ALINE, Okla. — Imagine being 26 years old with only a quarter in your pocket, running to stake a claim during the Cherokee Strip Land Run of 1893 in the middle of a vast prairie east of what became ...

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 ...

Congratulations to Clay Jenkinson for his recent and informative article about the Welk Homestead and music-maker Lawrence Welk. As a Pioneer Heritage board member since 1991, I have stopped counting ...