the houses were made out of sod
They simply used materials which were readily available and on treeless plains sod of turf were the easiest material to obtain.
Without trees or stone to work with, homesteaders needed to depend on the main accessible structure material — grassland turf, playfully called "Nebraska marble." Turf is the top layer of earth that incorporates grass, its underlying foundations, and the soil gripping to the roots.
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On the prairy where there were no trees for wood, yes they did.
They used different materials to build there homes because ceartan groups lacked resources to build there homes
The majority of the homes that were built on prairies were built out of sod.
The Hopi used both adobe and stone to build their homes with.
They simply used materials which were readily available and on treeless plains sod of turf were the easiest material to obtain.
sod
That was the building material that was available to them.
Without trees or stone to work with, homesteaders needed to depend on the main accessible structure material — grassland turf, playfully called "Nebraska marble." Turf is the top layer of earth that incorporates grass, its underlying foundations, and the soil gripping to the roots.
That was the building material that was available to them.
That was the building material that was available to them.
That was the building material that was available to them.
That was the building material that was available to them.
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The homes - and by extrapolation the homeowners - were called "soddies".