Author
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Title
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Publication
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Notes
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Links
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Dick, Everett
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The Sod-House Frontier, 1854-1890: A
Social History of the Northern Plains from the Creation of Kansas & Nebraska
to the Admission of the Dakotas
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New York: D. Appelton-Century, 1937
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A pioneering
work of social history that broke the pattern of academic historians, who
largely focused on male, economic elements of the pioneer experience.
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Becker, Ted J.
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“Steppe and
Prairie ‘Sod’ Houses”
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Heritage Review 31 (March 2001): 18-20
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Reserve Readings
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Hudson, John
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“Frontier
Housing in North Dakota”
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North Dakota
History 42 (1975):
4-15
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Reserve Readings
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Carlson, Alvar W.
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“German-Russian
Houses in Western North Dakota”
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Pioneer America 13 (1981)
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Full
Text at GRHC
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Burns, Christina Grimsrud
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“Power,
Gender, and Organization of Space: A Comparison between Extended Coalescent
Hidatsa and Crow Women and the Structures in Which They Lived”
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Thesis, North Dakota State University,
2004
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Carter, John E.
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Solomon D.
Butcher: Photographing the
American Dream
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Lincoln: University of Nebraska
Press, 1985
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Solomon
D. Butcher Collection, Nebraska
State Historical
Society
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Welsch, Roger L.
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Sod Walls: The Story of the Nebraska Sod House
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Broken Bow:
Purcells, 1968
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A
thoroughgoing study of material culture, based on the Solomon Butcher
Collection of photographs.
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Solomon
D. Butcher Collection, Nebraska
State Historical
Society
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Roper, Donna
C., and Elizabeth P. Pauls, Eds.
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Plains Earthlodges: Ethnographic and
Archeological Perspectives
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Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama
Press, 2005
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Koop,
Michael, and Carolyn Torma
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Folk Building
of the South Dakota
German-Russians
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Videotape,
Vermillion: South Dakota
Preservation Office,1984
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Koop, Michael,
and Stephen Ludwig
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German-Russian Folk Architecture
in Southeastern South Dakota
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Slide
collection with cassette tape and script, Vermillion: State Historical
Preservation Center, 1984
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Upton, Dell,
Ed.
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America’s Architectural Roots: Ethnic
Groups that Built America
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Washington: Preservation Press, 1986
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See pp.
130-35 for “German-Russians,” by Michael Koop; pp. 160-65 for
“Ukraininans,” by John C. Lehr.
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Reserve Readings
·
Koop
·
Lehr
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Murphy,
David
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"Building in Clay on the Central Plains”
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Perspectives in Vernacular
Architecture 3
(1982): 74-98
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Rozum, Molly
Patrick
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"'It's
Weathered Many a Storm—Many a Wind Storm': The Sod House in Northwestern South Dakota, 1900 to 1990"
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Thesis, University of North
Carolina—Chapel Hill,
1993
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This detailed
study of sod houses in Harding
County is
particularly notable for its exploration of the meaning of sod in regional
culture—the values associated with sod as opposed to wood, the implications
of permanence or impermanence, connotations of civilization or wildness.
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Reserve Readings
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Height,
Joseph S.
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Paradise
on the Steppe: A Cultural History of the Kutschurgen, Beresan, and
Liebental Colonists, 1804-1944
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Bismarck: North Dakota Historical Society of
Germans from Russia,
1972
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Height ranks
foremost among the American chroniclers of the old-country experience of
the Black Sea Germans. His major work comprises the trilogy here listed: Paradise
treating the Catholic colonies, Homesteaders
the Protestant, and Memories
collecting primary and ephemeral accounts of the colonists. Some of the
cultural material in Homesteaders
replicates that in Paradise.
Both works include brief treatment of pioneer Semeljanka and of more developed colonist houses, many also of
earth.
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Homesteaders on the Steppe: Cultural
History of the Evangelical-Lutheran Colonies in the Region of Odessa, 1804-1945
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Bismarck: North Dakota Historical Society of
Germans from Russia,
1972
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Memories of the Black
Sea Germans: Highlights of Their History and Heritage
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Associated
German-Russian Sponsors, 1979
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Sallet,
Richard
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Russian-German Settlements in the United States, trans. By LaVern J. Rippley and
Armand Bauer
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Fargo: North Dakota Institute for Regional
Studies, 1974
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Despite the
taint of his Nazi associations, and despite occasional factual errors,
Sallet’s work is an invaluable survey of GfR settlement in the US. Of
particular value here is the appended essay by William C. Sherman, “Prairie
Architecture of the Russian-German Settlers,” pp. 185-95.
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Arends,
Shirley Fischer
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The Central Dakota Germans: Their
History, Language, and Culture
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Washington: Georgetown University
Press, 1989
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While
linguistic in focus, Arends’s work also presents solid “remembered”
historical background and, through language, explores folkways.
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Rath, George
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The Black Sea Germans in the Dakotas
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Freeman:
Pine Hill Press, 1977
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Primarily a
chronicle of who settled where and when, and valuable in that respect.
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Sherman,
William C., and Playford V. Thorson, Eds.
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Plains Folk: North Dakota’s Ethnic
History
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Fargo: North Dakota Institute for Regional
Studies, 1988
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The best,
concise introduction to the Germans from Russia
in North Dakota
is to be found in the “Volksdeutsche” chapter, pp. 117-81, by Timothy J.
Kloberdanz.
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Lalonde,
Shirley Byers
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“Addison House”
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Folklore (Saskatchewan History & Folklore
Society) Spring 2005: 37-38
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Reserve Readings
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Widner,
Ronna Lee
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“Sod Houses
of Rawlins County, Kansas”
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MA Thesis, George Washington University,
1988
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A close
study of five sod houses constructed by Czech settlers in one rural
neighborhood. Widner’s main point is that in this case, the sod house was
not considered a temporary expedient, but rather a prudent and practical
form for the long term.
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Reserve Readings
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Gates,
Donald S.
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“The Sod
House”
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Journal of Geography 32 (December 1933): 353-59
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Mears,
Louise W.
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“The Sod
House as a Form of Shelter: Where? What? Why?”
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Journal of Geography 14 (June 1916): 385-89
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Reserve Readings
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Alberts,
Frances Jacobs, Ed.
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Sod House Memories: Volumes I-II-III
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Sod House
Society, 1972
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Collection
of sketches and reminiscences from a Nebraska
association founded to commemorate the sod-house experience—many
highlighting the phrase, “I was born
in a sod house.”
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Reserve Readings
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Oringderff,
Barbara
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True Sod: Sod Houses of Kansas
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North
Newton:
Mennonite Press, 1976
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A compilation
of photographs, with analysis and commentary, from across Kansas.
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Barns, Cass
G.
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The Sod House
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F666 .B25 1970
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Guilliford,
Andrew
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“Earth
Architecture of the Prairie Pioneer”
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Midwest Review
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Reserve Readings
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Kear, V.A.
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Sod Houses and
Dugouts in North
America
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Colby:
Prairie Printers, 1971
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Reserve Readings
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Noble, Allen
G.
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“Frontier
Settlement on the Plains: Sod Dugouts and Sod Houses”
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Reserve Readings
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Welsch,
Roger
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“The Meaning
of Folk Architecture: The Sod House Example”
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Keystone Folklore Quarterly
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Reserve Readings
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Francis,
E.K.
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“The
Mennonite Farmhouse in Manitoba”
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Mennonite Quarterly Review 28 (1954): 56-59
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Reserve Readings
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Noble, Allen
G.
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“Sod Houses
and Similar Structures”
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Pioneer America 13 (1981): 61-66
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Reserve Readings
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Echoing Trails II: Billings County History
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Medora: Billings
County Historical Society, 2003.
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This local history includes an excellent description of
the building of a Ukrainian earth-pack house.
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Description
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Gates,
Donald S.
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“The Sod
House”
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Journal of Geography 32 (December 1933): 353-59
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Reserve Readings
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