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
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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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