sod hut

West

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a rude dwelling having walls of sods and a roof either of sods supported by wooden rafters or, sometimes, canvas.

Quotations

1921

Year after year more "claims" were taken up, more "sod huts" were built, more of the land was broken for crops.

1963

[Greetings] to people who once lived in log cabins and to those who lived in sod huts. . . .

1967

[In 1898] . . . gophers dotted the prairie wool like tent pegs . . . where my grandfather and my uncle would build a sod hut.