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 ...

SANFORD, Minn. -- Read a few entries in the guest book and you'll know Stan and Virginia McCone have a hit on their hands. The McCones own the Sod House Bed and Breakfast and encourage visitors to ...

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 ...

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 ...

ALINE, Okla. — Sod House Museum is celebrating 50 years of preservation this month, 123 years since Marshal McCully built it. The two-room soddy, built in August 1894, is the only remaining ...

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 ...

Baked by the sun and buffeted by wind, the southeast corner of a sod house is typically the first piece to fail and fall. Merle Block would learn this lesson the hard way, some years after he’d taught ...

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, 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 ...