Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Tells how settlers on the treeless plains built houses from the prairie sod itself.
Sod Houses on the Great Plains
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Tells how settlers on the treeless plains built houses from the prairie sod itself.
The Sod-House Frontier, 1854-1890
Author: Everett DickPublisher:
ISBN: 9780803216877
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
The Sod House
Author: Elizabeth CoatsworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Sod Walls
Author: Roger L. WelschPublisher: J. & L. Lee Company
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The Laura Ingalls Wilder Companion
Author: Annette WhipplePublisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1641601698
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Eager young readers can now discover and experience Laura Ingalls Wilder's books like never before. Author Annette Whipple encourages children to engage in pioneer activities while thinking deeper about the Ingalls and Wilder families as portrayed in the nine Little House books. The Laura Ingalls Wilder Companion provides brief introductions to each Little House book, chapter-by-chapter story guides, and "Fact or Fiction" sidebars, plus 75 activities, crafts, and recipes that encourage kids to "Live Like Laura" using easy-to-find supplies. Thoughtful questions help the reader develop appreciation and understanding of Wilder's stories. Every aspiring adventurer will enjoy this walk alongside Laura from the big woods to the golden years.
Midwest Maize
Author: Cynthia ClampittPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252096878
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Food historian Cynthia Clampitt pens the epic story of what happened when Mesoamerican farmers bred a nondescript grass into a staff of life so prolific, so protean, that it represents nothing less than one of humankind's greatest achievements. Blending history with expert reportage, she traces the disparate threads that have woven corn into the fabric of our diet, politics, economy, science, and cuisine. At the same time she explores its future as a source of energy and the foundation of seemingly limitless green technologies. The result is a bourbon-to-biofuels portrait of the astonishing plant that sustains the world.
A Carpenter's Life as Told by Houses
Author: Larry HaunPublisher: Taunton Press
ISBN: 1600854028
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
"From one of Fine Homebuilding's best-loved authors, Larry Haun, comes a unique story that looks at American home building from the perspective of twelve houses he has known intimately. Part memoir, part cultural history, A Carpenter's Life as Told by Houses takes the reader house by house over an arc of 100 years. Along with period photos, the author shows us the sod house in Nebraska where his mother was born, the frame house of his childhood, the production houses he built in the San Fernando Valley, and the Habitat for Humanity homes he devotes his time to now. It's an engaging read written by a veteran builder with a thoughtful awareness of what was intrinsic to home building in the past and the many ways it has evolved. Builders and history lovers will appreciate his deep connection to the natural world, yearning for simplicity, respect for humanity, and evocative notion of what we mean by "home.""--
Home on the Plains
Author: Kathy MoorePublisher: C&T Publishing
ISBN: 9781935362807
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Inspired by sod house homemakers' words and quilts, Kathy Moore and Stephanie Whitson tell about those hard-working women striving to create a home on the plains... in houses made of dirt. While struggling to survive, they still found time for beauty, making lovely, intricate quilts to brighten their homes. Eight patterns are included.
Giants in the Earth
Author: Ole Edvart RølvaagPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dakota Territory
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
A narrative of pioneer hardship and heroism on the boundless Dakota prairie, as a Norwegian-American immigrant family passed through Ellis Island and worked to eke out a living in America's midwest.
Over in the Wetlands
Author: Caroline Starr RosePublisher: Schwartz & Wade
ISBN: 0449810186
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publishing in time for the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, here is a beautiful read-aloud about animal families preparing for an impending storm in their bayou habitat. Journey to the Louisiana wetlands and watch as all the animals of the bayou experience one of nature’s most dramatic and awe-inspiring events: a hurricane. The animals prepare—swimming for safer seas, finding cover in dens, and nestling their young close to protect them. During the height of the storm, even the trees react, cracking and moaning in the wind. At last, the hurricane yawns and rests, and animals come out to explore their world anew.