Light on the Prairie: Solomon D. Butcher, Photographer of Nebraska's Pioneer Days Plain Nancy
Light on the Prairie: Solomon D. Butcher, Photographer of Nebraska's Pioneer Days Plain Nancy Once President Lincoln signed the Homestead Act of 1862, which granted 160 acres of free land to anyone…
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Light on the Prairie: Solomon D. Butcher, Photographer of Nebraska's Pioneer Days Plain Nancy
Once 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. 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. Solomon D.
He had learned the art of photography as a teenager, and he began taking pictures of his friends and neighbors. He didn't like farming, but he found another way to thrive. Butcher noticed how fast the vast land was "settling up," so he formed the plan that would become his life's work--to record the frontier days in words and images.Alongside sixty-two of Butcher's iconic photographs, Light on the Prairie conveys the irrepressible spirit of a man whose passion would
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