A colorfully illustrated explanation, using simple and clear language, of the construction of sod houses, by an author born in a sod house, discusses why these homes were built on the almost treeless Great Plains.
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South Dakota author Glen Rounds was born on April 4, 1906 in a sod house in the Dakota Badlands. The rugged beauty of his birthplace and childhood would shape his art throughout his life.He grew up on a ranch in Montana, studied art at the Art Institute in Kansas City, spent one summer traveling with fellow student Jackson Pollock, and another summer traveling with his teacher, Thomas...
Kindergarten-Grade 3-Though delightfully simple, this pictorial history has very complete information on the sod houses built in what is now Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas during the later part of the 19th century. Rounds's tongue-in-cheek sense of humor shows through in both his telling of the facts and his clever illustrations. Careful readers will discover that every picture tells many things about early frontier life not...
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