Light on the Prairie: Solomon D. Butcher, Photographer of Nebraska's Pioneer Days AUTH-14829257 and Community

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a riveting tale of a paradise lost and a native son determined to infuse it with new life

Light on the Prairie: Solomon D. Butcher, Photographer of Nebraska's Pioneer Days AUTH-14829257 and CommunityOnce President Lincoln signed the Homestead Act of 1862, which granted 160 acres of free land to anyone with the grit to farm it for five years, the rush to the Great Plains was on. Solomon D. Butcher was there to document it, amassing more than three thousand photographs and compiling the most complete record of the sod house era ever made. Butcher (1856 1927) staked his claim on the plains in 1880. He didn't like farming, but he found another way to