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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ALINE — Visitors to a home made originally from dirt and grasses can experience what life may have been like during the 1890s by walking through the furnished sod house. According to Oklahoma ...

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 ...

A Sunday afternoon drive to "who-knows-where" can turn up all sorts of surprises, especially if you haven't a clue where you are going, no time limit set to get there, and concerned when you get back.

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 ...