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Light on the Prairie
Solomon D. Butcher, Photographer of Nebraska's Pioneer Days
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Artikel-Nr:
9780803235205
Veröffentl:
2012
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.09.2012
Seiten:
128
Autor:
Nancy Plain
Gewicht:
228 g
Format:
232x178x13 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Nancy Plain is the author of nine children's books, including With One Sky Above Us: The Story of Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce Indians, winner of the 2010 Spur Award for Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction, and Sagebrush and Paintbrush: The Story of Charlie Russell, the Cowboy Artist, winner of the 2008 Spur Award for Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction. Her books have also won the Carter G. Woodson Honor award and First Place in Children's Nonfiction from the National Federation of Press Women.
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.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A Tenderfoot Goes WestA Note on Terminology