HUNTER, N.D. - Growing up, Donald Aune would hear stories from his mother about the sod house she lived in as a child in the late 1800s near Milton, N.D. She talked about how cozy it was despite the ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - For volunteers with the Sandhills Journey National Scenic Byway Visitors Center, building a sod house has been a dream for a long time. Now it’s a reality. The work started in ...

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 ...

Most people think of sod houses as those lived in by pioneers. Their basic living quarters were made of dirt walls. To me, it didn’t sound like a very pleasant life. Susan Davis (Courtesy photo) I was ...

Ecologists in Nebraska are trying to find out what the Great Plains looked like when homesteaders settled there in the 19th century. To do that, they’re working with a team of archaeologists and ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - During a trip to the Custer County community of Anselmo, we learned about a sod house and jail you can see right on main street. “The pioneer jail was used in the early years of ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Laimiki Innuaraq stands on top of the sod house he built just a short snowmobile ride from the centre of Sanirajak, Nunavut. This ...

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 ...