Because it was so hot in the Great Plains region, the pioneers built their homes with sod roofs. Sod still makes a great insulator!
iroquis
Sod houses cost little to build because sod was widely available.
Central plains.
Houses were not built of wood (no trees= no wood). One type of house was a "soddy", buit from blocks of sod cut from the plains and stacked like bricks.
Prairie farmers built houses out of sod
Because it was so hot in the Great Plains region, the pioneers built their homes with sod roofs. Sod still makes a great insulator!
Sodbusters were farmers who settled in the west and got their name from the houses they built out of bricks of sod.
The settlers built sod houses because of the lack of wood.
They didn't cost much to build
Inuit tribe :)
The homes - and by extrapolation the homeowners - were called "soddies".
sod houses are as real as marshmallows!
Sod. Mostly grass and dirt. These houses were called soddies. When the Vikings went to what we know as Canada, they built soddies.
Sod houses built by the early pioneers can be found in West Bend, Iowa. West Bend is located in northern Iowa in Kossuth and Palo Alto counties, Iowa.
sod?
people here built there houses out of sod. the great plains nearly had any rainfall.