The Sod HouseU of Nebraska Press, 1970 M01 1 - 287 pages "No one so well knows the life of pioneer settlements," writes Addison E. Sheldon in the foreword to this book, "as the country doctor, and the country editor, and it might be added, the country postmaster who (in the popular pioneer belief) knew every letter written or received by every person in the community and read all the postcards." No wonder, then, that Dr. Sheldon considered Cass G. Barns uniquely well equipped as a local historian, for Barns served his community in all three capacities. A country doctor who combined farming with medicine, he had a part in the founding and management of the first industries of Boone County, Nebraska, became the editor of a newspaper, county commissioner, and postmaster. The Sod House is a personal narrative?the intimate story of the settlement and frontier years (1867-1897) of the Nebraska prairie country lying between the Elkhorn and Loup rivers. In the worlds of Dr. Sheldon, himself a pioneer Nebraskan, "It preserves for all future generations a faithful picture of the period and the region which it describes." |
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Contents
ForewordHon Addison E Sheldon | 3 |
Preface By Author | 7 |
Chapter IWestward Emigration | 11 |
Chapter IIBirth of Nebraska | 19 |
Chapter IIIMore or Less Personal | 31 |
Chapter IVWays of the Country | 45 |
Chapter VA Sod House Home | 57 |
Chapter VIIndiansBuffalo Game | 72 |
Chapter XIIDistrict Court During the Eighties | 146 |
Chapter XIIINebraska Politics | 156 |
Chapter XIVCharacter Sketches | 179 |
Chapter XVOx Team Freighting | 197 |
Chapter XVIA Pioneer Preacher | 208 |
Chapter XVIIThe Weekly NewspaperPioneer Poets | 219 |
Chapter XVIIIThe Money Loaner | 233 |
Chapter XIXThe Sod House Doctor | 244 |
Chapter VIIGrasshoppersDrouthColonization | 89 |
Chapter VIIIThe Nebraska Climate | 106 |
Chapter IXPioneer Country Schools | 115 |
Chapter XRailroad Land GrantsTaxesFree Passes | 125 |
Chapter XILive Stock and Grain Dealer | 135 |
Chapter XXGrand Army of the Republi | 253 |
Chapter XXIEvolution of Nebraska National Guard | 263 |
Chapter XXIINebraska National Guard in Action | 272 |
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