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Many immigrants of Scandinavian ancestry settled on the
Northern Plains of the Dakotas in the late 1880s and 1890s. Lacking traditional resources
from which to build a house, many immigrant settlers constructed their houses out of sod.
Several pictures of first or second generation immigrant family sod houses follow. Why do
you think the immigrant families were willing to live in the sod houses? What benefits do
you think the sod houses offered to the families? What problems do you think the sod
houses presented? Do you think the immigrants thought of the sod shelters as more of a
house or more of a home?
For a larger version of the images below, click on the photographs. Click on the text to view bibliographical records. View additional photographs from The Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920. Use your browser's Back Button to return to this point.
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