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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. Solomon D. 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. He didn’t like farming, but he found another way to thrive. He had learned the art of photography as a teenager, and he began taking pictures of his friends and neighbors. 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 give us a firsthand look at the men and women who settled the Great Plains. Like his subjects, Butcher was a pioneer, even though he held a camera more often than a plow.

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History of the Americas

Nebraska

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Publié par	Bison Books
Date de parution	01 septembre 2012
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780803243460
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	5 Mo

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Light on the Prairie

Solomon D. Butcher, Photographer of Nebraska’s Pioneer Days

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Publication of this volume was assisted by a grant from the Friends of the University of Nebraska Press in memory of Frederick M. Link, founding president of Friends.

All photographs are courtesy of the Nebraska State Historical Society.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Plain, Nancy. Light on the prairie : Solomon D. Butcher, photographer of Nebraska’s pioneer days / Nancy Plain. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. isbn 978-0-8032-3520-5(pbk. : alk. paper) 1Solomon D. (Solomon Devore),. Butcher, 1856–1927—Juvenile literature.2. Photographers—Nebraska—Biography—Juvenile literature.3literature. I. Title.. Nebraska—History—Juvenile tr140.b88p53 2012770.92—dc23[B] 2012001341

Set in Galliard.

For my mother, Belva Plain, my inspiration in everything

We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it—for a little while.—w i l l a c a t her,O Pioneers!

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Acknowledgments A Note on Terminology Introduction: A Tenderfoot Goes West The Great American Desert Solomon Butcher, Sodbuster “Eureka!” Attack of the Grasshoppers Desperadoes Years of Trial, Years of Change Pioneer History of Custer County Sweet Nebraska Land Where to Find Solomon Butcher’s Photographs Notes Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Biographical information about Solomon Butcher is fromPio-neer History of Custer County, and Short Sketches of Early Days in Nebraska, by Solomon D. Butcher; and fromSolomon D. Butcher: Photographing the American Dream, by John E. Carter. I am deeply grateful to John E. Carter and Linda Hein, of the Nebraska State Historical Society, for all their generous help and for sharing with me so many wonderful stories of old Nebraska.