Sod Houses on the Great Plains
by Glen Rounds
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Tells how settlers on the treeless plains built houses from the prairie sod itself.Tags
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A very brief look at the sod house that was often the first home for many pioneer families on the frontier of the Great Plains. The author has included some useful information, but the illustrations are not captivating and the ending seemed a bit abrupt. Still, this book has some value in showing a child whose ancestor may have lived in such a house what the home would have been like.
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Rounds, who was born in 1906 in a sod house near Wall, South Dakota, and moved to Montana one year later in a covered wagon. He wrote dozens of tall tales and realistic books about rural America, especially North Carolina, where he lived, and Montana, where he was brought up. Rounds first book, Ol' Paul, the Mighty Logger, was published in 1936 by show more Holiday. He won the AAUW Award in 1983 for Wild Appaloosa. The AAUW Award was created in 1953 to honor North Carolinan children's authors.Rounds died in Pinehurst, NC, September 27, 2002, after a long illness. He was 96. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Picture Books, Children's Books
- DDC/MDS
- 693.2 — Applied science & technology Buildings Construction in specific types of materials and for specific purposes
- LCC
- F596 .R845 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America United States local history The West. Trans-Mississippi Region. Great Plains
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- English, French
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